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From: athos@apple.com (Rick Eames)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard vs. SuperCard vs. PLUS
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Date: 2 Oct 89 15:27:13 GMT
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In article <832taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> taylorj@yvax.byu.edu writes:
> PLUS is simply HyperCard with bells and whistles (and bugs) and some 
sorely
> needed features such as larger windows, "library stacks" to hold shared
> resources, multiple text fonts/styles/sizes in fields, color, etc.  It's
> generally quite compatible with HyperCard stacks.  It seems to be 
basically
> unusable (i.e. crashes frequently) on a Mac with less than 2 Meg of RAM. 
 The
> manual is abysmal.  The english is actually so bad it's funny!  It's 
full of
> useless trivia and devoid of useful details.

I'm afraid you're a little off on this one.  Try using PLUS 1.11 which 
fixes most of the bugs you speak of.  SuperCard doesn't do much better 
with 1 meg.  I tried.  It was far too slow.

Rick