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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3, or Where have all the flamers gone?
Summary: Andrew is slick; arc-drawing is glacial
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Date: 10 Nov 88 01:56:24 GMT
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I am working with the Andrew toolkit in the contrib section, and
have really got to applaud the ITC, IBM, and CMU, for donating such
a fantastic set of tools.  The Andrew "ez" editor is *almost*
GNU Emacs in function, with styled text and multi-media objects.
R3 finally provides a decent raster editor, and a picture editor
that is suitable for slides.  The Andrew console tool is one of
the best ways of watching your system that I have ever seen.

What's really nice is to see that all of the Andrew multi-media
documents can be sent via E-mail, and posted to bboards, and so
forth.  There is a sketchily documented integrated mail-and-bboard
scheme in the system.

Extremely impressive stuff.

*But*...  in drawing round-cornered boxes, the thing is glacial.
I don't think that it's Andrew, I think it's the server.
It appears to be caused by slowness of drawing in the "mi" portion
of the sample server (running on a Sun).  Can't really complain,
because the rest of the server seems quicker than the R2 release.

Also ran across an infinite loop in the server Arc code, when a 
particularly bogus set of args is given to it (which will be posted
later when it is more definitely identified).

Bill