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From: moran@drivax.UUCP (Mike Moran)
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Subject: Re: ToolBook/hypermedia/hypertext
Keywords: Hypermedia, hypertext, object, toolbook
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Date: 13 Jul 90 16:56:59 GMT
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wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes:
>In article <4909@milton.u.washington.edu> efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler) writes:
>>
>>multimedia/hypermedia toolkit, and contains it's own OOP language,
>>OpenScript.  Any remarks &/or questions are welcome.  
>>=Eric Fowler

>Well as for running it on a 1 Meg 10 Mhz 286, ITS UNUSABLE!!!  IT is
>slow on this configuration.  I get the feeling that the performance
>might significantly be improved with more memory.  The reason I beleive
>this is that the hard disk activity light is on almost all the time.
>Maybe this is because the DLLs can't all fit in memory at the same time.
>Other than that is seems really nice, but waiting 2 minutes to switch
>between screens is just to slow for me!!  Can somebody comment on using

We have tried toolbook on several machines, mainly 386/25MHz systems with 4 or 8

Megs of memory.  Performance is too slow to be practical, whether using the
supplied scripts or others we have found.

-- 
Michael A. Moran
Digital Research
70 Garden Court B15
Monterey, CA 93940