Talk:Interleaf

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This deserves a better article, if we can find sources. I used Interleaf in the early 1980s. It was a very good product, with roughly the capabilities and speed of Microsoft Word 97, but in 1982.

The problem with Interleaf was the pricing model. It wasn't sold as software; you had to buy Sun workstations, a server, and a laser printer from Interleaf. Cost of entry was about $60,000. They had the right technology, but the only way to make money back then, when nobody had enough computer power to run the thing, was to sell entire "desktop publishing" systems. --John Nagle 19:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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I used Interleaf in the early 1990s, on an Apollo workstation. It had nice features that I still miss from the programs I use today, such as Word.

For this article, it would be nice with a history of available platforms by year. Has Interleaf lost it? To who? In my workplace, it was replaced with Framemaker on Unix, and later by Word. Is this new Quicksilver product a modernized Interleaf, or is it something else? --HelgeStenstrom 10:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)