Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!ozvax!gregl
From: gregl@ozvax.TEK.COM (Greg Lacefield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stepping Out II
Message-ID: <648@ozvax.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 20:21:51 GMT
References: <31711@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: gregl@ozvax.UUCP (Greg Lacefield)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In article <31711@linus.UUCP> jkm@linus.UUCP (Jonathan K. Millen) writes:
>The publishers of Stepping Out II, Berkeley System Design, did
>something right.  Their upgrade to II made some improvements, 
>notably keeping the menu bar fixed at the top of the screen, but
>there is also an unadvertised change; it is now compatible with
>MS BASIC. 

Another BIG improvement over the original is the fact that menu, dialog,
and window draws, undraws, and redraws occur without much (if any) perceptual
difference in speed vs. a system running without SO II.  In the old version,
the draws appeared noticeably (several seconds) delayed.

Kudos to BSD!!!  :^)

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Greg Lacefield
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Tektronix, Inc.
Wilsonville, Oregon
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