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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: TP6.0: thoughts and questions
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My thoughts on the new IDE:

I use TP on two different machines:  an 8 Mhz 8086 with a monochrome screen,
and a 25 Mhz 486 with a colour VGA screen.  Both have mice.

On the XT clone, the IDE is slow and ugly.  I much prefer to use TPE, the free
editor from Turbopower.  It has multiple windows too, and a smarter way to
cut and paste - there's no difference between doing it within a window and
doing it between windows.  It's slower at compiling (because it has to swap out 
and load TPC), but it can compile bigger programs and run them too.

On the 486, I like the IDE.  The difference in speed is much less noticeable
there, and the IDE looks really nice in colour.  The dialog boxes are easy to
use with a mouse, and it's nice not to have to name all the files I want
loaded into the windows.  There's still the problem with big programs, though.

On the few occasions when I've used the IDE without a mouse, I've hated it
on either machine.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu