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From: tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Reviewer needed for Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX
Message-ID: <65@maxx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 90 02:19:47 GMT
References: <58@maxx.UUCP> <15686@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Organization: MAXX: Tom Yager's UNIX lab, Amherst, NH.
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In article <15686@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>  * Does Lotus say their 1-2-3 is only for SCO UNIX?  If not, why is SCO
>    UNIX specifically required for the review?  Has BYTE unilaterally
>    decided that SCO is the only UNIX worth checking?

In general, we avoid such edicts. I like ISC and SCO about equally, but since
I'm currently working on X and Motif projects, I'm running ISC 2.2. I switch
back and forth pretty frequently by choice.

Lotus has certified its first release exclusively for SCO UNIX and Xenix. I
believe it may have something to do with the fact that it supports native-mode
VGA graphics, which may be implemented differently under SCO and ISC. I didn't
hear that from Lotus, mind you. If they say it will only run reliably under
SCO, that's how we'll test it.
> 
>  * How is the reviewer supposed to know in advance how much disk and
>    memory you really need to operate a new 1-2-3 release "efficiently"?
>    Isn't that the point of the review?

To some extent, but virtual memory makes the proclamation of memory
requirements somewhat dubious.

I referenced the disk and memory issue because, without looking at 1-2-3, one
could handily guess that it wouldn't run very well on a 2MB system with 1MB of
free disk space. It will be considerably more demanding than its DOS
counterpart. That much is probably obvious; my warning was likely a waste of
breath.
> War is like love; it always      \%\%\%   Tom Neff
> finds a way. -- Bertold Brecht   %\%\%\   tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM

(ty)
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