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From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: Re: Apple Technology Release Arrives!!
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In article <dupont-1212951417170001@17.205.22.70>,
Lucien W. Dupont <dupont@newton.apple.com> wrote:
>Hey, my Apple Dylan just arrived from APDA! Looks like they beat that 15th
>ship date!
>
>What's in the package? All the documentation, printed and bound, plus the
>CD.. a hefty, hefty box, I was shocked and pleasantly surprised - I was
>not expecting the printed manuals.. 
>

There are about 1500 pages of documentation, judging from the height of 
the stack of manuals.  That figure *does* include the DRM though.

Now only if that gosh darn development environment was PPC-native.

I'm impressed by the performance of the GUI builder (which was written in
Dylan).  If I remember correctly, earlier versions of the GUI builder
were so slow that they were unusable.  Now it is pretty speedy.

