Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 89 16:20:20 GMT References: <14304@ut-emx.UUCP> <769@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> <14171@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <780@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>, <4297@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: <4297@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> >When RR11 comes out in the next couple months, there will be no problems >with speed. Nope, it just ain't so. I have seen RR 11.0 (Scott demoed it to the local user's group). Throughput has been greatly improved, but that isn't saying much compared to 10.3. A friend ran ProComm+ under SoftPC (on a Mac IIcx) and timed it against RR 11.0 on the same IIcx (w/ and w/o multifinder, ProComm=/SoftPC ran w/MultiFinder), and RR 11.0 was either slower or the same speed as ProComm/SoftPC. The brain-damaged user-interface in 10.3 has become even more brain-damaged; all but a few menu-items are hierarchial. Even command-strokes are hierarchial; cmd-s, cmd-l to open a settings file (Settings Load). It works, and really isn't that bad, but the way scott implemented it, once you hit the first command key, the next command key hit (no matter if it is immediately following or 20 hours later) is interpreted as the sencond commmand stroke-- very confusing at times). The phone-book is still like the old one, only the door doesn't 'pop' open. The scripting language has NOT been improved; path names are still hard- coded and still have the x character limit. Want to lock up 11.0? Just move the folder that contains your script files and then select a user created menu item that tries to execute one of those scripts-- Red goes into an infinite loop of trying to execute a moved file. And it doesn't end there.... I am waiting to so MicroPhone II ver3.0 before I am jumping on the 'Red is the end-all of Mac telecommunications' bandwagon... b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu