Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

Just looked into this. Blah. I don't use this, but I have composer
friends who do. I don't know if any boycott or campaign has a chance of
bringing back development or getting Avid to sell the program. I guess
it's keep running it until it doesn't work anymore and hope Finale is
still around then!

This kind of software is incredibly difficult to write, has a fairly
small market, and users who want it to be easy and fast since they're
probably under huge time pressure. Many years ago (1986?) I was helping
to convert a hand-written orchestra score into parts using the
Synclavier's Music Printing software. The basic info was entered as
text and then displayed on a VT100 text terminal with a special graphics
card. No mouse - just arrow keys. It was very slow and very painful.
I think I did about 30 measures before I quit :)