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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.104234.4870@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1993Jan22.131726.21494@cs.nott.ac.uk> <11428@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <1993Jan23.171343.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:42:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.171343.1@vxdesy.desy.de> burke@vxdesy.desy.de (Stephen Burke) writes:
- >Aside from all the comments about the protection system, would you or someone
- >else like to tell us something *about* Advance :-)
-
- The press release gave the basic information about Advance. It is essentially
- a suite of four software packages, produced by four different companies, each
- based on one (or more) of that company's existing products. Thus the document
- processor part has distinct similarities with Impression Junior, the spread-
- sheet with Schema, the database with DataPower and so on. There is a small
- wimp application which allows the user to load one or more of these, and also
- 'Minimise Memory' by quitting unwanted Advance applications.
-
- As far as I could make out from two brief demonstrations, each of the
- packages is a very capable product, and put together, make a worthwhile
- set of tools, gaining a lot from their ability to transfer data from one
- package to another with very little effort on the users part. It looks
- like a package which ought to do well in schools, and I could imagine many
- home users being tempted, given that it is an Acorn product and will cost
- "around about 100 pounds + VAT" for a single user (this figure has not yet
- been fixed), and four times that for a site licence.
-
- I'm sure some other people who have seen it will chip in - as usual, those
- people who have seen it "warts & all" may have different opinions, but I
- doubt if we will see those posted here!
-
- Simon
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