Example sentences for: ashton-

How can you use “ashton-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I read with interest the account of your experience with the Ashton-Tate word-processing program Framework III [ XVI ,4].

  • Some word processing programs now offer such a feature--the one I use Framework III (Ashton-Tate), is not bad at all--and writers as well as compositors and publishers seem to care less and less whether a word is hypenated in an acceptable manner.

  • It seems redundant to point out that all offers I have made in the past to put Ashton-Tate on the right track regarding language (and manuals) have been ignored, though it is hard to say whether that is out of their arrogance, their ignorance, or their inability to read my letters.

  • FRAMEWORK II is sold by Ashton-Tate, a silicon-valley concern that makes quite good programs but, like most of the software companies, produces such abominable manuals with directions for using the programs that they have to maintain a staff of several dozen “technical personnel” who are on duty about 12 hours a day, beginning at about six in the morning (California time) merely in order to answer the questions of confused customers.

  • It is a good thing that the technical staff at Ashton-Tate is not being asked to field questions about its Spelling Checker; I am not sure I would want to hear the answers.


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