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#Animator Pro Update

    05-Nov-92 17:18:23
Fm: PhilD [ADESK] 71650,2154
To: Craig Sharp [Mem TM] 73417,2320
One of the reasons AutoCAD's interface is so difficult to alter effectively is that each subsequent version of AutoCAD must be compatible with the existing world of 3rd party add-ons, at least as much as possible. If we were to change the user interface, not only would all the uses have to re-learn how AutoCAD works from the ground up, the learn the new features, but we'd blow up a very large number of packages upon which hundreds of developers depend for a living. It ain't easy to make Big changes to the basic operation of a program like AutoCAD. AAPro may well be in the same boat, due to POCO/POE and an increasing developer base designing add-ons for it.