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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Jazzbench...Private to Marc B.
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Date: 2 May 90 16:05:06 GMT
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Sorry about this folks.  I'm afraid my mailer is braindead.
Private to Marc Barrent:

[foo, now I can't get ^L in here, sorry again :(]

Anyway.

   Marc, there are very good reasons for working on Jazz1.0, most of them
being that the new WB2.0 did not address the needs as I saw them, and the
simplistic hooks into the new system won't let me change them.  

Most importantly, WB2.0 is still synchronous, which is a pain.  The
reason Jazz had all those programs were for the asynchronous nature.  You
can hit the close gadget while a window is opening, for example.  I have
yet to get any of my 1.4Beta disks to do that.

The neatest feature was the real-time scrollbar update, which is still
done better than the WB does their realtime "push-button" scrolls...
(less screen updating).

You see, in my opinion WB needs to be thrown out.  Cmdre would rather try
and make it useable.  Fine with me, as that leaves me with a potential
market.. :)

To further annoy me, their floppy disk access has succeeded in getting 
slower.  Thanks to Dave Haynie, my disk accesses have allways been faster,
without those annoying "directory/.info" files.  And yes, believe it or
not, WB creates a whole slew of new idiotic ".info" type files.

I have been playing around with my Beta disks, so yeah I'll include some
of the better features.. :)  Believe me, I'll do them one better :)

					-Dave

Try to send from your owl account, that may work better for my replier...
THanks
David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me