Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing

[Richard Kuhns]

In article <1246 at kitty.UUCP> larry at kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>
>	On occasion I get asked for my opinion on computer systems for small
>business applications.  Since 100% of my computer applications are scientific
	[ ... ]
>	At the moment I am being compelled to offer an opinion on a computer
>system for a medium-sized law office; they want to start out small, and do
>not want to spend the money for a law office automation system (like a product
>of Barrister Information Systems).  For three or four secretaries (and to allow
>for growth), I am inclined to recommend a 3B2 or NCR Tower XP as the most
>COST-EFFECTIVE means of implementing a multi-user system.  Comments, anyone?
>
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I wouldn't have any problem recommending a 3B2 for the circumstances you've
described -- we started with a 3B2/300 about 1 1/2 years ago, upgraded it
to a 310, and have been satisfied enough that we've added 2 3B2/400s since.
The worst problem we've had has been a bad memory card, which was replaced
within 2 days (not bad, considering it went bad during the strike).
(I didn't mention it, but we are using them in an office environment).
Multi-user support is very good, by which I mean that you (I) don't notice
much system degradation as several people log in, unless they're running
very disk-intensive operations (the system definitely starts dragging
then).

My feelings about word processing are similar to yours, except I favor
EMACS (JOVE, to be precise).  We aren't heavily into word processing, but so
far vi and/or jove has been sufficient.
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