Any Comments on Plus?

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From: Kurt Marko
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1989 15:00

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Now that Plus (the SuperCard-like HyperCard "clone" [I don't
mean this to be pejoritive] published by Olduvai) is out, I'd 
like to hear some opinions, comments, reviews of it before I
spring.  Note, I understand that MacConnection had Plus at MacWorld 
last week and should have it in stock for mail order later this week
($115).

How does it compare to SuperCard (both in richness of features and
performance [or lack thereof])?

What is the mechanism for utilizing existing HyperCard stacks?  Does
it have an 'import' command (like SC), can it open them directly?

Is it a complete implementation of HyperTalk; does it have language
extensions (are we going to end up with three 'versions' of HyperTalk)?

Does it support XCMDs and XFCNs?

How is the documentation?  Are the features, language fully described?

Any other general comments are welcome.  Thanks in advance.

Kurt Marko
kmarko@hpdml93.hp.com
...hplabs!hpdml93!kmarko

Disclaimer:  HP doesn't even know I use Hyper/SuperCard.

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Subject: Any Comments on Plus?
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Date: 15 Aug 89 15:00:41 GMT
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