Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Duet...WHY NOT?! Message-ID: <1990Dec16.084707.1689@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 08:47:07 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 21 avarg@gnh-applesauce.cts.com (Abel Vargas) writes: > Who the hell wants a GS when they can have a Mac? I do. The Mac is a beast to program. It's O/S design reminds me of what might have happened if the enhanced //e firmware were hacked to support desktop programming and the prodos MLI via the BRK vector. GS/OS is a hell of a lot nicer -- it has the best designed calling conventions of any O/S (fully extensible parameter lists and such). The main thing I still want to see done is real process support based on the UserID system. This would make multifinders a lot easier than the Mac one was, and will make unix style shells extremely easy to support. As a programmer, I feel that O/S research is due for a revolution soon anyway. Until then, give me GS/OS. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu