Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!psuvax1!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: A talk with an Apple person............ Message-ID: <9011161658.AA00482@apple.com> Date: 16 Nov 90 15:35:34 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 On Fri, 16 Nov 90 00:49:52 GMT Seth D. Kadesh said: >Just wanted to share some stuff with everyone: > >Talking about the //e card for the LC, he said that they (I forget - >marketing? engineers?) wanted the card to have GS capabilities too, but >they decided not to when a survey found only %5 of the GS users use GS >specific software!!!! I find that extremely hard to believe - %95 of >the GS owners only use //e software ?!?!?!? I can believe that. I think that most of the GS's out there are probably in school labs and if most school labs are anything like our lab here at UTC, then they don't even KNOW that the GS is a different machine than a //e. In our lab, they have NOTHING but //e software for about 20 GS's. I was in the 'watchdogs' office the other day (the guy that watches over the lab) and I saw a book for Appleworks GS. That's the only evidence I've seen of ANY GS specific software. They still use the //e system disk to boot up the GS's. I see, maybe, ONE person per month using a GS there (not including myself). Everyone uses the 25 ps/2's that are sitting right next to the GS's or they use the 40 MAC SE's on the other side of the room. I've heard comments from users of the lab saying that they didn't even know why the had the GS's there. So, I brought a copy of the FTA demos and a self running disk of 3200 color pictures on the only GS with a color monitor. I walked down the hall to go to the bathroom. When I came back, there was a CROWD of at least 15-20 people standing around watching! :) Did my heart good! >-seth >--- > - tHe mAd ScienTisT, and other carnations >sk2f@andrew.cmu.edu >R746SK2F@CMCCVB _______________________________________ | | | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |---------------------------------------| | Assembly- a low level language | | Assembler- used to create an assembly | | Language program. | ---------------------------------------