[comp.windows.ms] MultiScope

tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (10/09/90)

Joel Spolsky <spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu> writes:
>> I spotted an ad in one of our ad bible magazines about the debugger from
>> Logitech (of all people) that said it ran under PM, Windows etc. 

> You are referring to the Multiscope Debugger for Windows. The ads
> appeared in June, I called them and they said that MAYBE in the fall
> they would have this program ready. As far as I am concerned this is
> vaporware, it pisses me off no end when people advertise programs they
> haven't written yet.

We have MultiScope for OS/2 PM.  It also pisses me off to no end when a
debugger is so unstable that it crashes regularly when you're trying to
find out why wour program is crashing.  

I'm not impressed by MultiScope, and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
It looks snazzy, but it's flaky (under PM), doesn't exist (under Windows)
and I have had many poor experiences with Logitech's Modula-2 support and
development.

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) (10/09/90)

After all the problems I've had with the Logitech scanner software and their
horrible upgrade policy I will NOT buy any more of their products. Just
another example of a non-consumer-oriented software company. (This is what
happens when you invite the venture capitalists in !)


-Jaz


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pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (10/11/90)

> 
>Both are useful, certainly, but the cost of the display card and second monitor
>should not be too large to swallow for any moderately hardcore developer who's
>developing using the industry standard PC architecture.  (For those of you whom
>Mother kind of boned, well, what did you expect?)
>-- 
>
Price is not quite the question. But the MDA card took up another slot
in my PC and I'm hard pressed for slot. After all my PC is general purpose.

Right now, I have 1 x ESDI controller, 1 x SCSI controller, 1 x ATI VGA
Wonder, 1 x Multi-I/O card, 1 x Sound Blaster card (I play games of course
:-)), 1 x MDA card. Six cards total; and I plan to add an EPROM programmer,
and may be something else. So, I'm out of room.

Would be nice if CVW allows you to do it either way, via. second display
card or via. a dumb terminal through the serial port. Better still,
provide a third option of displaying it as a window.


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feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) (10/13/90)

Colorgarphic Communications Corporation makes a video board which
contains circuitry for two complete VGA subsystems. Up to 4 of these
cards can coexist in a system. Hardware is provided to window one of
the vga displays in the other or to use two completely separate
displays.
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