dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (06/18/84)
The Law Society of Upper Canada is planning on upgrading their obsolete
IBM word processing equipment, and has been looking at 3 Displaywriters
(with two printers) for about $35,000 Canadian.
Our CAI project will shortly be getting a Perkin-Elmer 3220 running
"Edition VII Workbench", which is v7 with a few "Berkeley enhancements"
such as vi and termcap. This system will have significant excess
processing power for at least some period of time and possibly indefinitely.
Is there a decent word processing package which will run under this
system, which would permit us to hook up terminals at $1,000 each to
the Perkin-Elmer rather than buying the Displaywriters? (I suspect
that shoving vi and nroff down the throats of people used to real WP
would be a mistake :-) Something which involves relabelling keycaps on
a standard terminal such as a VT-100 would be fine.
Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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