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Subject:Re: Mac or IBM? From:John McGhie <jmcghie -at- WORLD -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:04:15 GMT
"Prof. James Lenze (810) 204-3658 Technical Communication
Program" <LENZE -at- ltu -dot- edu> wrote:
>The administration at my university believes that the Macintosh platform is
>not used in professional environments. I'm trying to convince them that the
>Macintosh is widely used by technical communicators.
Sorry, I cannot think of ANY technical writing shops in Australia that
use MacIntosh. None.
There's gotta be one somewhere!
Everyone in my shop is on PC/Windows/MS-Word. The shop before that
was also PC/Windows/MS-Word. The shop before that was Xerox
Viewpoint, SunOS/FrameBuilder, PC/Windows/MS-Word.
