Re: The Manager from Seven Hills (INFO!!)

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <9302021601.AA12512@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao) writes:

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>    They did an excellent job on Kangaroo, so I'm very interested in
>seeing if The Manager lives up to its billing.  Now if Seven Hills would
>only concentrate some more on improving their "older" software (like
>GW3!!!) instead of only getting new software!

The GS needs music notation software, a good sequencer, a good word processor
that accepts inline pasting (with the baseline info retained),etc...
 
What it does not need is a DTP'ing program (in my opinion). The current 
graphics on the GS make it unsuitable for that sort of activity. One would
be better off with a $200 clone. 640x200 is totally unacceptable in 1993.
 
One of the interesting bright spots is GSymbolix, although they insist on
using a graphical user interface, as opposed to a more suitable "text-graphical"interface. An unzipped GS can't handle GUI's.
 
Now where the heck is all the multimedia stuff? The computer is perfect for 
that. By this time next year, HyperStudio will be established on the Mac and
the propects for the GS will become most bleak indeed.

Don't want to be pessimistic, as the GS is capable of handling most of what 
people need for a home or home away from work computer. DTP'ing certainly is
not one of these however, except on a small scale. As the last real home
computer around I can see why 7Hills would want to bring out more suitable
programs for the GS. The market is there for appropriate software.
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu