Ron@sri-unix (07/21/82)
At COMDEX this year a salesperson at the Corvus booth tried to give me the usual enthusiastic but devoid of content explanation. The feller tried to show me the windowing software and crashed it when he moved the cursor off the edge of the window. Salespeople can be fun to watch at times like that. The device itself is really cute though, with it's tilting display and Apple compatible bus slots. The display has what you might call "lowest possible resoultion full page display" graphics. It has functions keys on the detachable keyboard, which are labelled on the bottom of the display, wherever it may be. It is sometimes a little tough to tell what key goes with which function, especially if you put the keyboard in your lap. Probably overpriced ($5000 for that?). I came away suprized at how slowly it was running, which someone later explained was because it was emulating a Z80. One giant step forward, many tiptoe movements backward. (ron) -------