Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: CADD/CAM (Re: Riddle) Message-ID: <1786@geac.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 08:39:42 EST Article-I.D.: geac.1786 Posted: Fri Nov 6 08:39:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 08:42:03 EST References: <5094@utah-cs.UUCP> <594@auscso.UUCP> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 20 In article <594@auscso.UUCP> mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) writes: > >.... The Mac had something like THREE programs with the words "CAD" or >"Draft" in the titles, and were PATHETIC. Either extremely poor interface >design or limited features. I must agree: the Mac CAD/CAM stuff was *underwhelming*. On the other hand I just read a preprint of a CAD/CAM mag discussing a recent show where several real Mac CAD programs suddenly appeared out of the woodwork. The editor's opinion was that the Mac developers had suspended development until they could get Mac IIs with large or multiple screens and colors for identifying their various drawing planes before letting anything real out into the marketplace. --dave (wait... wait... SHAZAM! its here) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.