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From: eav@hpindda.HP.COM (Eugene Veteska)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MicroGrafx Mirrors
Message-ID: <40130005@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 1 May 89 23:38:50 GMT
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> As MicroGrafix is our direct compeditor this comment may be biased,
> however I have heard this from numerous sources.
> "Mirrors is sloooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!"
> 
> Ok now that I have gotten that out of the way, the protection violations
> may not be due to Mirrors, it may be due to your own product. 
> One of the first things you find out from porting software from and
> un-protected to a protected enviroment is ... all of the nill or bad
> pointers used. Mirrors will not take care of this for you, you have to.
> I would really try to port the software directly to PM, it's not really as 
> dificult as it looks and it will definitly be faster.. much faster. I hope
> you didn't spend too much money on Mirrors, you could have spent it on
> porting your app to PM.
> 
> 				Jack Hudler

I'm looking into porting a Windows app to PM.  What other products
are out there for converting besides Mirrors ?  Any other opinions/info
about Mirrors and if it's easier or better to just do the port by hand
(Our program is fairly large (~30KLOC)) ? Thanks !!

Eugene Veteska
HP Cupertino, IND
eav@hpda.HP.com