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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C=128 VT100 emulator
Message-ID: <6683.27A3B053@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 13:08:11 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

In a letter to All, Robert Andrew Knop (rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu ) wrote:

 >Matthew.Desmond@p0.f178.n221.z1.fidonet.org (Matthew 
 >Desmond) writes:
>(I refuse to support 
>GEORam simply because it is prefixed by the three letters GEO...)

 >Whew... this sounds like it's along the lines of my kneejerk 
 >instinctive
 >reaction when I see something prefixed with the letters "Mac".

   Rather than get too seriously upset over what Matt said, you should take 
into consideration the cost (in both cash and time, not to mention code space) 
of acquiring and supporting every bleedin' flavour of third-party device.

   If a hardware supplier wishes their products to be supported, it behooves 
them to make sure that software developers can get hold of one at low cost and 
can get *high* tech support.

   So far, only Dr. Evil Labs, Hatronics, and (to a lesser degree) CMD have 
stooped to 'help' Matt (which resulted in substantial improvements to the 
design of the SwiftLink and HART).
 




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