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From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Kudos for progs that work well together
Message-ID: <90296.100436JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 23 Oct 90 15:04:36 GMT
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I have to add a comment or two wrt DeltaGraph. We purchased it as
a graphing solution for our research lab. It has proven to be a
serious dog, in my view.
 
While it claims to run in one meg, it doesn't. Period. With all
inits shut off. Still says "out of memory". It tends not to run
on my plus w/2.5 Meg, unexpectedly quitting with some frequency.
Graphs/data tables changed, then saved, often turn out to revert
to the original unchanged form. Printing to our networked IINT
is touchy: it works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't.
 
Tech support has been very poor. Whenever we call, they say it
must be some other part of our system that causes the problem,
this despite the fact that the same problems occur on my plus,
the secretary's IIcx, and my wife's at-home, non-networked, init-
free IIcx (this was an experiment; I took it back off the hard
disk afterwards). It's slow. The output CAN be very nice. It seems
like what we've gotten is early beta software; perhaps v2.0
will be the real thing. I cannot recommend this product; it may
work well with other software, but it doesn't work well alone.
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Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
voice: 513-529-1679      fax: 513-529-6900
jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
"Rest assured, my boy, the more narrowly you define what you know,
the more certainly your knowledge will be in demand."