Rinaldi and Rev Speed wuz Re: Newbie

[Ken Ray]

> The speed thing is really true with Rev. When I started experimenting
> with Rev in late 2001 on Mac OS9, I wasted a whole lot of time
> worrying if my old XCMDs would run in the environment. I was just
> familiar with the way I always did it -- HC for the front end, XCMDs
> to do the heavy lifting. Then I did a little text manipulation and
> was amazed at how fast it was.

Amen, Stephen, that's the way it was, back in the day...

> Of course, there were many other great products that enabled us -
> like Compilit, X-App, Windowscript, and Tom Pitman's PrintReport,
> which had features only now rivaled by Rev, 20 years later.

True; one minor correct, though... Tom Pittman was the author of Compile-It,
while John Nairn was the author of PrintReport (IIRC).

Boy, that brings back memories...

:-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/