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From: laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.text
Subject: Re: Anyone have experience with Island Write,Draw & Paint?
Message-ID: <1991May28.082241.22523@canon.co.uk>
Date: 28 May 91 08:22:41 GMT
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rrg@fibercom.COM (Rhonda Gaines) writes:

>The header says it all.  I would appreciate any comments you have on this 
>package (good or bad).  Will it run under X11?  We have a varied Sun setup
>and want a package that will run on all the platforms we have.

Perhaps there is a new version out, but when we evaluated it about 6 months
ago we were a little disappointed.  All of the tools seemed to be 1/2
finished... though I suspect that this is only because they compare poorly
to the standard of equivallent tools on the Mac.

The thing that really bugged us was the way the promotional literature
misled us into assuming that it would run fine under OpenWindows.  In fact,
what we got was a SunView implementation of an OpenLook conformant-ish interface,
which would kind-of run in that kind-of SunView compatibilty mode which
OpenWindows kind-of has.

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