Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!tybalt.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: CLUE: IT'S A HOME MACHINE! Message-ID: <1990May5.084448.15933@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> Date: 5 May 90 08:44:48 GMT References: <4aDvrMK00Ws185_UNi@andrew.cmu.edu>, Sender: news@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 38 sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth D. Kadesh) writes: [ in reply to someone else ] >How much do you actually know about the GS? The GS has a complex set of >toolbox routines and other managers that compare (design-wise) very favorably >to the GS. As someone else mentioned elsewhere, there is a event manager (I've ^^ typo! this should be "Mac" >probably got it wrong, but my recall isn't very good today) that simplifies ^^^^^ nope, you're talking about TaskMaster and MessageCenter >desktop programming and communication tremendously! Doesn't exist for the >cumbersome Mac world. And GS/OS beats HFS hands down, in terms of >expandibility and user support for outside functions. That last is true but its potential is largely unrealized. An HFS FST (Apple had better be planning to release one!) would install on a GS 5.0 system disk, and whammo we will be able to read/write and use Mac disks in every GS/OS program. The Mac won't have anything as convenient as this until system 7. >OK. A tarnish on the GS image - it's speed. I would say it's currently >inadequate for anything involving intensive graphics. Take a look at ORCA/Desktop. The 4.0 version has the best desktop text editing I've seen on the GS. Period. You only get one font, but it's as fast as a Mac. Their 5.0 friendly version is in beta 11 (gag) but when it comes out I am going to shell out for it and a Toolbox Ref 3. >I really really really REALLY REALLY wish people would realize that there is a >LOT more to the GS than just a 12 year old relative! The GS is not 12 years >old, no matter how you count! Amen, brother. The GS has a bad reputation because everyone thinks it is limited by 8 bit Apple // compatibility. In software nothing could be further than the truth, if anything GS/OS is more 'current' than the Mac. The hardware suffers from idiotic design decisions on Apple's part which are scandalously easy to fix; they were caused by internal politics, not technological barriers. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu