silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (10/20/90)
Just a word of warning to those who are thinking of buying the new Harvard Graphics ... it's _painfully_ slow to install. They've compressed the files on the installation diskettes and their uncompression utility is a pig. They estimate it will take the best part of half an hour to install it on a 386-class machine, and something in the order of 45 minutes on a 286. (that's for the whole package). I installed it for a client yesterday afternoon and jeez, it's even slower than installing Windows 3. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd rather receive a package with 10 diskettes in it that takes 15 minutes to install, rather than receiving only half as many diskettes but needing twice as long. And it wouldn't raise the price of the product since they must have put a lot of hours into the compression/decompression. Another problem: what do you do if some brain-damaged user wipes out one of the files? You can't just go and copy it back from the master disk now, can you? And I can just see it happening. "Sorry, dear client, but you'll have to pay me to come back and re-install the _whole_ program." -- HI ROGER |Nikebo says "Nikebo knows how to post. Just do it."| silver@xrtll _________|-----------------------|_______________|------------|_____________ yunexus!xrtll!silver (L, not 1) | Hi Ho Silver | costing the net thousands Silver: Ever Searching for SNTF |i need a grilf | upon thousands of dollars