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From: GIAMPAL@auvm.auvm.edu
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Subject: Re: Hypertext -- REVIEW
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Date: 28 Apr 91 20:21:46 GMT
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In article <281A7F2E.1415@orion.oac.uci.edu>, nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien
>>If anyone has any questions about HT, let me know and I'll try to answer
>>them.         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>How fast is the Text Editor or Reader on it compared to the Amiga Vision
>Text editor?  Amiga Vision text editor is tooooooo sloow; it's not usable
The AmigaVision text viewer thing is ridiculously slow.  HT is _much_
_much_ faster.  To tell you the truth, I don't know how the AmigaVision
people (IMSATT) got their text viewer to be so slow.  They must have really
tried :-)

 HT's text display is very fast, and speed was one of my prime concerns when
writing HT.  Short of playing funny blitter/cpu tricks, you are not going
to be able to go any faster (considering that HT displays arbitrary fonts
and text styles).  My display code has been re-written several times, and
I think it is quite nice to use (download the program and see it in action!).

Also notice that HT never falls behind on key repeats no matter how big
or long your document is.

>even on the 3000.  Also how customizable is the text editor!
HT is _not_ a text editor.  You can use any text editor you want to write
your HyperText documents, then HT displays them and lets the user follow
your hypertext links and take notes on the document.


>Is it possible to have a digital clock on the custom screen that is changing
>real time?
Sure if you want to run a clock program I don't have a problem with that :)


--dominic