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From: tedb@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Ted Beers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: GeoWorks Ensemble: any comments?
Message-ID: <25690002@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:33:40 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Just a final note:  I thought "Ah, assembler hackers.  No wonder it's so
> tight and fast.  The code for it must really be a mess."  Not so!  Their
> internal design is equally as brilliant as their external design (I have
> the developer's overview).  Everything is beautifully layered and seperated
> and abstracted just like the profs always said it should be.  It's all
> object oriented, libraried, drivered, and kerneled.  The system abstracts
> out the UI from the data and does it in such a way that's it's supposedly
> easy to code in a UI-independant fashion (remember that the user can switch
> UI's at the flick of a button!).

    Sounds good!  So where can the rest of us get GeoWorks Ensemble and
    the developer's overview you mention?

    Ted W. Beers
    Hewlett-Packard