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From: kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: QuickerDraw
Message-ID: <11540125@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 88 00:47:50 GMT
References: <1824@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>What do people know about QuickerDraw? What does it improve/change?
>How does it work? Why? What does Apple think about it? Where can I get
>it?
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It is an init which patches some of the low level quickdraw routines
with code that is supposidly faster than "original flavor" quickdraw.
Andy Hertzfield claims up to 350% increase in performance "especially
in drawing and selecting text".  Well, since drawing and selecting
text is near instantaneous (I am running it on a macII) I have noticed 
no increase in speed.  I noticed around a 25% increase with some 
big quickdraw things, but were talking 15 instead of 19 seconds 
to draw a complicated picture on a 13" mac screen.  Not exactly 
staggering.  Perhaps with a 19" monitor...

I found version .9 floating around on some BBS around here, perphaps
version 1.0 will be faster.

Apparently Andy talked to Scully about it at MacWorld, and Scully told
Andy that it would be best marketed by someone else (Andy still doesn't
realize that Apple doesn't like any of Steve's friends...)  The Raster-
Ops folks said that if Apple doesn't market it, they will.  Andy thinks
$75 bucks is a good price for it, however since it is <10K, is not
copy protectable (it is an init), and doesn't blow you away, I think
he is out of his mind, and at $75 it will be illegally copied faster
than you can say "please insert the disk untitled".

Version .9 also is not 100% quickdraw compatable, and I have noticed
several programs which don't draw correctly with it in use (everything
works ok, until you go into 256 color mode).  Perhaps it speeds up an
"ordinary mac", but mine is out on loan, so I haven't been able to test
it there yet, and from looking at the startup icon (a rainbow effect),
it may only be for a MacII (don't quote me on that!)

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