Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: CALAMUS SL
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.215344.27478@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 21:53:44 GMT


In <16783@milton.u.washington.edu>, Enartloc Nhoj writes:
> My dealer vaguely described what he called "CALAMUS SL"..
> SOmething to the effect of a "CALAMUS DESKTOP".. in whihc
> you never have to "leave" CALAMUS... can do all your file
> duties, run other programs and load "modules" that are
> designed specifically for use with CALAMUS: spreadsheets for
> example.  
> 
> I heard mention of "SL" in an article from a EUROPEAN user.
> 
> CAN someone elaborate on this please.. correct me etc... and
> does anyone know if and when SL will be available here?  Is
> it already?
> 

SL will be the next version of Calamus. It will have many new features,
and I'm not sure how many of them I'm allowed to mention right now
(I don't work for ISD, but we're friends). As for the "desktop," though,
it's actually a modular system. Calamus loads and unloads modules which
own their own icons and windows, but work within Calamus with the
clipboards, etc., and you can pass text and graphics back and forth.
There will be many specialised programs which will run as modules
inside Calamus, for different kinds of text and graphics work (Outline
Art and the Font Editor are two good examples). Calamus SL will work
with colour, use virtual memory (limited only by the HD), and allow 
multiple documents open in separate windows on the screen at the same time.
It also works with up to 256 levels of grey, but don't quote me on that.
I'm sorry, but I do not have a date to give.


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