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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: CricketDraw
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.053738.1299@world.std.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 05:37:38 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.012702.10155@midway.uchicago.edu> <124011@linus.mitre.org>
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laf@mbunix.mitre.org (Lee Fyock) writes:

>In article <1990Oct20.012702.10155@midway.uchicago.edu> 
>chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling) writes:
>> Whatever happened to CricketDraw?  Is it still available, and if so,
>> from whom?

>Two MacWorld Expos ago, I saw a demo for Cricket (excuse me--CA/Cricket)
>Stylist, which appeared to be an upgrade or rework of Draw.  Evidently,
>Computer Associates bought Cricket, and their products have languished ever
>since.  I've recently read that someone else has purchased (I think) Graph,
>so possibly Draw will follow.

>BTW, Stylist's screen updates were still slow as molasses.  Haven't these
>guys heard of offscreen bitmaps?

>Lee

>--------------------------------------------
>Lee Fyock              The MITRE Corporation
>laf@mbunix.mitre.org   Bedford, MA


I, too, read somewhere that Cricket Draw has been purchased, but I forget
by whom.  An update to Draw is now supposedly shipping.  No mention of
Stylist.