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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.051415.894@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 91 05:14:15 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>When any of our computers goes down, people cannot reasonably be expected to
>make use of the machine in a "standalone ROM monitor mode" while waiting for
>the field service engineer to arrive.  Even if it reverted to an IBM PC level
>of functionality, that would not help.

If no other free machines are availale, they CAN be reasonably expected to
make do with a built in terminal emulator, text editor, RAM disk, and printer
driver. IF they were in ROM along with the base O/S and a simple shell or
windowing system, that is -- which is my whole point in pursuing this.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu