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From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Actor
Message-ID: <8558@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 19 Oct 89 23:20:41 GMT
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In article <2516@hub.UUCP>, fender@casaba.ucsb.edu (Chen, John Yun-kuang) writes:
> If you are a student, you can buy actor for the low academic price of $99.
> All you have to do is xerox your reg card or something like that.  I bought
> one & I like it very much, although I haven't gotten very far because I've
> been very busy.
>
> Does anyone have any good example source code to look at?
>
I've also looked at Actor, but have been hampered by 3 problems:

1.  The manual doesn't contain nearly enough full examples. That' sone of the
advantages of the various books on writing Windows applications in C.

2.  Even trivial applications (like Scribble in the manual) require 200k of
memory on a 286.

3.  Actor won't run on my 386. It says there is insufficient memory, even with
350+k of conventional memory and 2000k of EMS.

Anyone else got some comments?
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