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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
Message-ID: <15941@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Apr 91 18:21:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.171854.13367@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <15911@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr21.051415.894@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Apr21.051415.894@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
-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.

WRONG, and our computer users would find your claims ludicrous.

Perhaps you've been around toy computers too much.