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- From: someday@milton.u.washington.edu (Scott Johnson)
- Subject: Re: AREV 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.192340.2672@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <15024@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:23:40 GMT
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- In article <15024@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
- >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.
-
- Mainly INDEXED queries with complex ANDing and ORing clauses.
-
- >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?
-
- "Free roaming" means the pointer moves around and can point and select things.
- Compare to the horrendous mouse "support" in 2.x where mouse motion gets
- translated into cursor keystrokes, transparently. Yuck-o!
-
- >Well, my two cents worth.
- >--
- >Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
- > or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
- >*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- >Engineers think equations are an approximation of reality.
- >Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations.
- >Mathematicians never make the connection.
-
- -Scott Johnson
- not a spokesman for,
- but sitting at my desk at,
- Revelation Technologies, Inc.
-