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From: rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney)
Subject: Re: New Dylan user!
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 21:52:33 GMT
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In article <4hhhbk$l5l@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
mkgardne@pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu (Mark K. Gardner) wrote:

> Since we are asking new-user questions, I have a couple:
> 
> * I have heard that the Dylan TR requires a lot of memory.  How much?  
>   Will it run on 68K machines (or PowerPC only)?
> 
> * How well does it separate development and application environments 
>   (in other words, what are the resource requirements of the resulting 
>   application)?
> 
> * Does it provide any frameworks for building Mac applications?
> 
> I am considering getting the TR for a project I am working on, but before
> I spring for it, I would like feedback from people who are already using
> it.
> 
> --
> -Mark- mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu

Dylan TR requires a minimum of a 68040 processor and 20 megs of physical
ram, they recommend that you don't use virtual memory and so far I agree,
the environment is slow enough as it is. You development environment is 68k
but you can generate targets for both 68k and PPC.

The applications space depends on what you are doing but they recommend a
minimum of 2 megs to start.

Yes Dylan TR has a framework. As a matter of fact it is because of the
framework and the browsers that I am researching Dylon. I want to see what
interesting things the engineers thought up!

At this point I think that Dylan TR is what they say it is a Technical
Release, I am not sure that I would use it for production code but
depending on how it works I may use it for generating some of my own
development tools.

I hope this helps! Good luck!

Robert
