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Aucbvax.6442 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Mar 9 15:39:34 1982 Re: apollo >From DREIFU@Wharton-10 Mon Mar 8 16:09:24 1982 We also have the font editor, running on a Black&white display with a touchpad. It seems much nicer than the Perq, of which I've used only slightly. As compared with other systems the Apollo is a win. That is not to say that it is the best and all others are not even usable, but rather that Apollo has made some of the more intelligent trade-offs.

Much of our software (Quick-Graph), a DBMS graphics-interface, Q/A window prompt manager and underlying core software to (at some future date) handle graphics-laser printer interface has all been and will continue to be developed in Pascal. As one of the first Pascal sites, we've been especially pleased with with the implementation. At first, though it was a bit strange (* *) would not work, and so on...

I would be interested if everyone who is working on the Apollo could/would send a little note to Works (to be incorporated in an electronic-issue) on what you are doing and how it looks. One thing of primary interest is if the user community would take time to answer the following short questions:

If you have an Apollo, are you dis-satisified? Why?

If you have a Perq, can you qualify yourself as to whether you can compare the two machines? If so, can you contrast them?

If you have a Perq, are you dis-satisified? Why?

If you have a |X|, are you pleased? X:=={personal workstation}

Henry Dreifus

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