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Subject: Re: Wings (was:Re: GS/OS Reording)
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Date: 26 Jan 91 05:27:08 GMT
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In article <sbcDjj_00WB2EJTupI@andrew.cmu.edu> gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes:
>
>  Well, I think I just found the main source of our problems and
>misunderstandings...
	Nope, not quite.. You make a correct observation, but I'm
lumping both ProSELs together, because they both have many of the
same functions.. (Launcher, Disk recover, etc.)

>unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>         So repeating myself, I boot into ProSEL because it's probably the
>> best thing so far for ProDOS 8, and since I don't need GS/OS booted, I
>> don't boot into Wings.. 
>
>  There ya go.  You're using ProSEL 8...  I'm 99% sure that the rest
>of us are talking about ProSEL 16.  ProSEL 8 is currently at version

	Well, as I said, I sort of consider both of them simultaneously
(the ProSELs).. And yes, I HAVE used both of them fairly extensively...
(ProSEL 8 much more than 16 though).

	Larry Virden wanted a review of Wings (which he repeatedly 
called "Wingz" in a post... "Wingz" is some IBM and/or Mac productivity
programs of somesuch {I forget if it's a spreadsheet or database or what}

	I will give a more extensive review of Wings soon, but Wings is,
in short, a desktop version of ProSEL... Launching buttons like ProSEL,
file utilities, etc... Word processor/editor... Lots more...

	I don't always like desktop versions of programs over text
versions, though... I use the fact that the GS has a text mode in favor
of it all the time.. (in comparison to the Mac, Amiga, and ST's not
having one)

	I think it'd be DAMN hard to beat ProTERM in a desktop version..
If someone does it, I'd surely buy the program though... A desktop
version of X (does the X protocol work over modems or only directly over
Ethernet or somesuch?), or even a GS equivalent of the -damn cool-
thing Xenix has... You just type ALT-Function key, and you go to another
screen. Instantaneously, and the other screen is still running. It's
VERY useful.. Then you can have an ftp going in one screen, a compile
in another screen (although those don't take long cuz the 386s we use
for graphics are damn fast), an rlogin (to B, the fun machine!) in
another, etc... It's cool.. and I really wish I could do it from home
on my GS.. EITHER in text mode or in actual graphical windows... It'd
be faster in text, so I'd probably prefer that, unless the scrolling,
etc. could be made acceptably fast, like it is in Orca C's editor...

	{Ohwell, that should probably have been a few separate paragraphs,
but I'm too lazy}
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