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To: CatLady who wrote (4674)	6/24/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: John Chapman	Respond to of 7491

Cat Lady: How many exe's do the Viasoft and WRQ products check? This is the key to doing any comparisons.

To: CatLady who wrote (4674)	6/24/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 7491

Walker, Richter, and Quinn (WRQ) is a mainstream PC software vendor. I used their terminal emulation products years ago, early 80s at Intel and also at Altera in the early 90s. Both companies had loads of licenses from this vendor on all or most of their PCs. Their products are high in quality, and they have very professional support as I remember. Definitely not focused on the home PC market. But I'll bet not a few of their CDs manage to find their way home for the weekend as loaners from the IT or MIS departments to their buddies, who just want to check things out at home.

To: CatLady who wrote (4674)	6/24/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7491

Viasoft's OnMark 2000 product is not an .exe scanner. It is designed to look at spreadsheet and database code to find non-compliant Y2K logic. If you go to a Y2K trade show, Viasoft will give you these neat little tufted cotton targets with a couple of velcro covered ping pong balls to throw at it. The outer ring is "data" and worth 10 points, then comes "applications" for 20, "operating system" for 30, "hardware" for 40, and, of course, the bulls-eye is "OnMark 2000" for 50. Just in case CSHK has (or is planning) a competing trade show giveaway product, allow me to do a quick review of Viasoft's offering here: 1. Installation was easy; there is a convenient rounded metal thingee on top in which I stuck a thumbtack to hang it on the door. 2. It appears they cut corners on the ping pong balls. They were your garden variety type with velcro strips glued on. The kids had no problem pulling them off. 3. The target consisted of two pieces of cotton sewn together and there were no typos printed on it. 4. I found the tactile feedback to be of fair quality. If you threw underhanded at the target, the balls stuck. If you wound up and heaved, the balls tended to dent and bounce off. 5. Lastly, for those with kids, when you get hit with the ping pong balls it only stings for a few seconds. - Jeff