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- From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: AREV 3.0
- Message-ID: <15024@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 03:04:15 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- I'd be interested in other people's reactions to the AREV 3.0 release.
- The "coming out" presentation I attended made it appear more like an
- "AREV 2.6". The nature of the Lightspeed optimizations eluded the
- demonstration, I understand (had to leave early), which suggests that
- there are specific conditions under which you can expect phenomenal
- speed-ups, but that you have to aim for them.
-
- Well, at least the mouse interface is now on a par with, say, the
- Borland IDE. Still can help feeling that the basic AREV architecture,
- which embeds so much in declarative form (windows, menus, popups
- and esp. file dictionaries) is crying out for 1-to-1 translation
- into native Windows objects --- if the objective of 3.0 is to
- make it more accessible to the first-time user, then surely it
- would make sense to jump directly to a native Windows app, with
- the Open Engine running the Mutant File Systems.
-
- Still can't figure what the literature means by the free-roaming
- mouse; it's not as if you can switch between stacked AREV processes
- with a mouseclick, is it?
-
- Well, my two cents worth.
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- Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
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