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echo: os2prog
to: Ray Carlino
from: Mike Stella
date: 1995-07-20 18:49:02
subject: Visualage c++

A creature called Ray Carlino screamed at Peter Fitzsimmons:

 >  RC> Well I got the new visualage c++ 3.0 now all I need is 
 >  RC> a computer to run it on 
 >  RC> I have a pentium 60 with 24megs of ram and it crawls. 
 >  RC> What I need to know is 
 >  RC> will a faster cpu or more ram be the answer to more 
 >  RC> speed or is this just 
 >  RC> going to be slow?

 > Other reviews I had read say that everything is faster (than Cset++ 2.1), 
 > except for one of the new tools -- Visual Builder.  Is this the piece you 
 > are complaining about?

 > (Still waiting for my copy...)

 RC> That is the part. It just drags my system down to it's
 RC> knees. during loading  it takes approx. 2 mins to load and
 RC> to close and every time I move a box or try to open a menu
 RC> it takes a good 15 secs to redraw the screen. 
 
   I was going to install VisualAge c++ 3.0 on my system at work the other
day, until I found out the smallest I could make it was 186 megs.  That's a
bit much, I think.  And if its slow on a p5-60 with 24 megs, I don't think
it'll like my Model90 with 16 megs...  Oh well..

   .\\ike Stella

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