pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) (03/07/91)
Platform 1: IBM PS/2 70, 3MB Memory, 60MB HD, VGA, 16mhz
Platform 2: Compaq 325e, 4MB Memory, 60MB HD, VGA, 25mhz
Platform 3: Dell 33/386, 4MB Memory, 80MB HD, SVGA, 33mhz
I use: win3, winword, Designer, ATM, screenworks, PMaker, Excel 3.0,
Superbase4
I develop with: SDK, MSC 6.01, Actor 3.0, Digitalk Smalltalk V,
Borland C++, Zortech
My opinions? Platform 1 (P1) is unstable. I get the UAE and C:\ in gray
nondeterministically. I gather from MS and the net that there are known
problems with the 70 (MCA?). P2 is very stable.
Software: Actor and its objectgraphics is a very nice environment; the
classes are thought out fairly well and now that I KNOW the system, it
is more stable to me. I don't care for Zortech, very unstable and
hard to configure. PWB in MSC for SDK is slow on every machine. It
gets in the way. I typically run vi in a command window to edit and
compile and use codeview to debug. I have a debuggin envt. on P2 with
an Hercules card/monitor. Seems very stable. Borland C++, no windows
classes! This is exactly what OO people call C++, a good C compiler.
I can write classes from scratch but I am sure some company with more
people power is doing it. I have thought about modeling the Actor classes
under C++. Just go StV today! It seems to have the same drawback
that Actor has: making and delivering a stand alone application is
a little awkward; more than one file is needed as the executable. This
is because the interpreter must accompany the image file. But for
prototyping, development and debugging, ST and Actor are awesome. We
are considering using either in our graphics class instead of QuickC/MSC
and their graphics libs. I suspect the bc++ will soon be in this
category.
Next: I guess I will also be getting MSC++ and WinBasic from MSC
(actual product name may differ).
Oh bye the way, of all the stuff I use, the commercial application
( petroleum engineering analysis) I manage is written in SDK and MSC!
Why?...Why do people use fortran, cobol, netware, and autocad? Time$
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