At 22:33 28/05/97, Martin Mallinson wrote:
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>PS:  We are also looking at AllegroStore (reading the documentation
>     tells me this a cool product and we can use it in our company)
>     Does anyone out there use it on the PC? All the documentation
>     seems to be aimed at a UNIX user. Although I am a hacker at heart
>     I hate to be first-into-the-future on what could turn out to be
>     a massive time-sink. Any informal comments appreciated.
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Hello,

I have used Allegrostore on Windows NT (PC) for more than one year. I have
been satisfied with the AllegroStore 1.1.x versions: very easy to use (it
was very easy to port an existing application to Allegrostore), a bit slow
and not very well integrated in the development environment (e.g. no online
help for the AS functions). The final application has proved to be very
reliable.

However the last version (1.2) seems to be a true disaster even if the
performance has been improved (almost a 2 factor with a benchmark that is a
subset of my application - a function to redisplay the visible box of a
large electrical network map). In fact I have just decided to stop any
development with that version, probably returning to one of the 1.1.x ones.

If you decide to work with Allegrostore I would be happy to exchange
experience about this product use. By the way, if your are new to ACL4W,
you could be interested in some extensions for ACL4W I have written (see my
home page).

Regards,

Francis
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