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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!vlsi4!jvp
  3. From: jvp@vlsi4.ee.iastate.edu (Jim Van Peursem)
  4. Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: SUIT 2.3, An easy-to-learn GUI toolkit
  5. Message-ID: <jvp.725572391@cpre1.ee.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
  8. References: <1992Dec18.215510.25161@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <lj4t6eINNfpa@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> <owen-211292104542@rowen.astro.washington.edu>
  9. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:53:11 GMT
  10. Lines: 18
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  12. In <owen-211292104542@rowen.astro.washington.edu> owen@astro.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
  13.  
  14. >I tried an older SUIT and found:
  15. >- it is very easy to set up user interfaces, as advertised
  16. >- it is not very Mac-like. Instead, it is specifically intended to "work
  17. >the same" on any platform. In particular, the text editing is so different
  18. >that most Mac users will probably find it quite disconcerting.
  19. >- I got a fair number of crashes
  20.  
  21.   Agreed.  But I'd like to add one item:  It was quite slow on my machine.
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  24. | Jim Van Peursem - Ph.D. Student - Ham Radio -> KE0PH          |
  25. | System Administrator - Digital Systems Design Lab             |
  26. | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering |
  27. | Iowa State University - Ames, IA 50011                        |
  28. | internet - jvp@iastate.edu  -or-  jvp@cpre1.ee.iastate.edu    |
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