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In article <19960920.213007.23@mike.old-inn.demon.co.uk>, Mike Lane
<URL:mailto:mike@old-inn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In message <n10ADE6A3@jhammell.demon.co.uk> John Hammell wrote:
> 
> > I wish you had 'ranted' a few days earlier!!! I've shelled out cash
> > as well!
> 
> Sorry, I only 'upgraded' to ANT a few days ago myself
> 
> > 
> > Is it really that bad?
> > 
> 
> Well perhaps not *all* that bad - apart from the news download the rest of
> the ANT suite seems to me very good. The web browser is much better than the
> Termite one IMHO, and I understand that FTP is good as well. Looking on the
> bright side I would think that ANT is more likely to develop their product
> faster than the competition, and sooner or later they will *have* to sort out
> the news problem. The more people shout about it the better though.
> 

In release II of the Ant suite, The web browser, Fresco has been spoiled so
that it has become very very slow. It now takes over a minute on a RPC700 to
format and display a 60k text only page read from the local filing system.
While it is formatting, Fresco fails to multi-task to the extent e.g of
stopping the seconds counter in !Alarm for extended periods. Ant say that
they know about this and will fix it in about two weeks. Maybe they will.

Arthur