Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!phs172m From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APW 2.0 Message-ID: <58535.27135a24@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 10 Oct 90 07:28:03 GMT References: <7666@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.apple Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia Lines: 34 In article <7666@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: [Inquiry re APW 2.0] > > Someone told me a few hours ago in mail that APW support/updates > was quietly stopped (over the summer? I forget.. not tooooo long ago).. > > They now recommend people get/use Orca/C > > From what I understand, APW C is basically an all text oooooold > version of ORCA/C.. Isn't that right? ByteWorks wrote APW C and sold it > to Apple and then they just updated it a lot into their own ORCA/C... > > Any basis in fact? A dump of a Genie conference was posted to this group several months ago. In this conference Apple reps stated that it had been decided that APW 2.0 would be shipped as ORCA 2.0 when it was available. The major difference between the products up to now having been in extra features, the shell being further developed in the ORCA product at present. Apple's contribution to the shell in future will be the add on features in their APW tools etc. disk from APDA. (These comments are from memory, and are probably not completely accurate) APW C is a different product from ORCA/C. APW C was written for Apple by Megamax, and has not been substantially upgraded other than in tool interfaces. APW C does not fully support the PRIZM environment (eg debugging) if that is what you mean by all text. ORCA/C is a different product that was written by Byte Works as an ANSI C somewhat compromised to be able to compile previous APW C code with little or no code changes. -- Stephen Harker Monash University