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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Preview of Multi-Finder and Hyper-Card (long)
Message-ID: <2828@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 02:04:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2828
Posted: Wed Aug 26 02:04:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 00:37:42 EDT
References: <2165@mulga.oz> <1509@apple.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Centram Systems, Berkeley
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In article <1509@apple.UUCP> bc@apple.UUCP (bill coderre) writes:
>And yes, Bill did receive a standing "O" here. For five whole
>minutes.  But Bill insists that we stress that there was a whole team
>developing it, that it is not his project alone. Just pull down the
>"About..." to see all the people that worked on it.

This is not just Apple hype, folks.  HyperCard is the big fun!  Too damn
much fun for a working programmer!  If Apple doesn't get anything else done
for the rest of the year, it will be because everyone is playing with
HyperCard....

This is not to say that it's perfect.  Any program this big also generates a
large list of complaints and wishes.  But it's astonishingly good, and it
seems likely that it can go on getting better, unlike Atkinson's first
program.  All hats should be off to the development team.

>Here at Apple, on a Mac II, Bill had HC flip through a clip-art stack
>at about 4 or 5 cards per second. They were being uncompressed as
>they came off the disk. No memory preload, no prior uncompression.
>Real Users can expect that level of performance. Data compression is
>phenomenal. HC is a performance wonder.

Well, they won't get quite that performance out of a non-68020 machine with
no extra memory past the first meg for caching.  But it still seems to be
very fast on an SE.  (I use a Paris - no, not a Mac II - myself.)  Also,
printing is very slow.

>Anyway, enough soapbox. Try it, you'll LOVE it,..................bc

Definitely!  This is the best program I've seen in a *long* time.
-- 
Tim Maroney, {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg,frog}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)