mikes@ncoast.UUCP (Mike Squires) (01/02/88)
A beta test version of CMUTutor is running on Mac SE's and is promised
for IBM PC's with CGA graphics. I am using it on a Mac SE; it is said
to be an incremental compiler and its behavior fits that (slow
to start, speeds up as simulation is run). I saw a little bit of the
language itself (the simulation written in CMuTutor) and it did not look
like what I remembered PLATO Tutor looking like, but that was years ago.
CMUTutor and Switcher did not coexist; CMUTutor blew up while loading.
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814-724-3360 (voice) 814-333-6728 (data)yba@athena.mit.edu (Mark H Levine) (01/04/88)
We had a demonstration of Tutor under CMU's Andrew system many months back. It seems to have the advantages of BASIC in being an incremental compiler, where you can compile instructions on the basis of drawing graphs or draw graphs from instructions you enter. I am not sure how it would fit with interactive video disk -- please contribute the information if you have tried this. We have been looking for a good authoring environment (used DEC's Producer and then a product from a small outfit called DIRECTOR) and have pretty much despaired of finding one. We are writing some of our own tools. What level of data dump is appropriate for this newsgroup?