[Xastir] New xastir

[Brian D Heaton]

Nate,

	The maps I was using around that time were the WinAPRS county maps made
from the 90-something census data.  Each state was 20-30MB as I recall. 
Pretty painful to download over dialup.  I had a whopping 128Kbps
dedicated ISDN connection at home though so it was only slightly
painful. <G>

			THX/BDH


On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:55, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Curt Mills <archer at eskimo.com> [2004 Jan 10 18:25 -0600]:
>  
> > So what was the main impression that you got after skipping multiple
> > years of development?  I know it looks mostly the same, so you
> > should have been very familiar with most of the GUI already, but is
> > there anything that stands out as particularly different?
> 
> To be truthful, Curt, I didn't use it all that much back then as I only
> had a 486 100 and screen response was painfully slow.  It's perhaps
> because of that old machine that I'm still no fan of Motif.  Xastir is
> the only program that I use that needs Motif as every other Moitf app
> that I've used has at least one replacement.  :-)
> 
> I recall the maps being simple lines on a gray background and I'm not at
> all sure of what map format I downloaded way back then, but they were
> huge as I recall.
> 
> My impression is that now there seem to be few map formats that Xastir
> doesn't support.  It appears to be probably the most feature complete
> APRS program out there.  Of course, I've not ever used any APRS client
> for that other "OS", so I can't compare them.
> 
> 73, de Nate >>