To Quiz or not to Quiz...

[Deskin, Bob]

First of all, I've asked development how difficult this would be. I've also asked about CSV output. There are no guarantees here but I've asked.

As to whether it was a marketing ploy, it was not. At least I have never heard that in 25 years of using PowerHouse and dealing with the people who would know. The 255/264 limit no doubt has something to do with indexing on a limited stack machine (the original HP3000 under MPE with a 32k word data stack) or (if the number was 264) was double the standard 132 width page.

And I doubt that it would be a simple fix (although hopefully not too difficult) and almost nothing is patchable (across all of our platforms) in these days of optimizing compilers and RISC machines. I expect that increasing the size means changing internal indexing, tables, etc.

Bob

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Sharman [mailto:chris.sharman at ccagroup.co.uk] 
 

> 
> 
> If you look at the number of times that this topic has come up on this
> list, it seems to me that the .CSV file  output type needs to be added 
> to Quiz. 
 
Seconded.
All it really needs is an increase to the 255 page width limit. Is it really
a non-trivial enhancement ? It seems likely to be very 
simple to me - possibly even patchable in the executable.

Chris
 


 It used to be a marketing decision - because Quiz was cheap, or thrown in
with ManMan, 
 the 264 limit, and perhaps the 1 subfile limit, were marketing tools to
encourage users to upgrade to 
 the full PowerHouse product set. Perhaps it still is? Does it work? 

 I think it did work for a short while about 1986 when 5.01 came out for the
HP3000, 
 Mary Towner did quite well getting Quiz users to upgrade.





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