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Aucbvax.5728 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Tue Jan 12 16:18:48 1982 Scribe for the VAX >From Unilogic@CMU-10A Wed Jan 6 20:04:58 1982 While it would not be appropriate for Unilogic to make direct comparisons between TEX and Scribe in this forum, I would like to take the opportunity to let you know the current capabilities of Scribe and correct some minor inaccuracies that have appeared in previous notes. Scribe runs on all VAX models. There are versions for VMS and all known Unix systems. A single-CPU commercial license costs $25K. Additional CPU's at a site are $5K each. A single-CPU educational license is $10K with add-on CPU's at $2K each. Maintenance and upgrades start at $200/month for commercial installations and $150/month for educational. Basic Scribe supports as output devices: Line printers Diablo-class typewriters (Diablo, Spinwriter, Qume, AJ832, etc.) (includes proportional spacing, extended wheels, and colors). GSI CAT/8 and Wang 38 photocomposers DEC VK100 (GIGI) color graphics terminal Support is also available for: (additional charge) Xerox Dover and Penguin Xerox 9700 Laser Printer Compugraphic 8600 photocomposer Mergenthaler Omnitech/2000 photocomposer Support is planned for: (will deliver within 120 days) Xerox 5700 (In 860 word processor mode) Xerox 8044 (STAR print server) Canon LBP-10 (IMPRINT-10 system) Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Mergenthaler VIP series Autologic APS-5 or micro-5 IBM 6670, 3800

Scribe also runs on DEC-10, DEC-20 and IBM/MVS systems. We will deliver versions for Prime systems and the Three Rivers PERQ by April 30, 1982. All versions of Scribe have identical capabilities and manuscript files may be freely transferred among them. We have recently begun to improve on and incorporate into Scribe those public-domain features of TEX that seem desirable without porting any aspects of the TEX user interface. The first of these was Knuth/Liang hyphenation, which is now a standard option of Scribe 3C(1250), the version we are releasing now. These comments can be taken as the official policy of Unilogic. Further questions may be addressed to me at 605 Devonshire Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Telephone 412-621-2277. Mike Shamos President, Unilogic, Ltd.

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