Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!kluge!serss0!acmfiu From: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: a2r&d v apple Message-ID: <3492@kluge.fiu.edu> Date: 4 May 91 07:24:10 GMT References: <3415@kluge.fiu.edu> Sender: news@kluge.fiu.edu Organization: Florida International University, Miami Lines: 73 In article gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: >acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes: >> . if everyone agreed with me the II line would be dead within a month. i >> . sure wish for this but it will never happen. i'm also sure there would be >> . people in the apple II software business aiming to shoot me in the head if >> . i could make this decision. > > So let me get this straight... You love you ][ so much that you >want Apple to stop making it... > > Lemme guess, you loved your wife so much, you killed her so she'd >never leave you, eh? hey, no one was suppose to find out about the wife :) i dont' want apple to stop making the II. however, as long as they keep up their pursuit of copyrighting their GUI, i will continue to contend that the II should die to put less money in their pocket to feed their grungy lawyers. that's the only reason. i wonder what Woz, as a shareholder of apple, thinks about the suit? as far as i understand why ideas should be copyrighted, GUI's don't fall in this category. >> . ps. when was the last time you programmed on your favorite mega-machine >> . and the size of your program was _less_ than the size of your code? > > Tell ya what. Port Mathematica over to the GS, okay? Yeah, you >guessed it. You can't. At least, you can't do a good job. I'm not >trying to insult you. I'm stating a simple fact. The GS CANNOT do a >competent job on something like Mathematica. That's why you buy that >DECStation 3100, or that '040 NeXT box. Because it CAN do a good job. > > Hell, I use my GS all the time. I also use DECStations a lot. I >love 'em both. I don't want DEC to go belly-up so that the 3100 will >be immortalized, nor do I want Apple to go belly-up. The Apple ][ has >already made it's mark. It's an amazing machine. Why do you want >Apple to die? i don't mean _every_ program on computer X can be used on computer Y. if i said that, then i'd be a fool for thinking that Mathematica can be ported to the Timex Synclair. what i am talking about is the fact that programs now-a-days link in unbelievable amounts of code. ever seen a library written in C. if i ever distribute a compiler, i can guarantee you the library would be all in assembly. that's the way it should be. no need to bloat the end users code. decstations are nice machines. i won't argue that mega-machines are better than our little II's. my only contention is the size of code on your decstation because people don't program in assembly for it. most people who program on the mega-machines program in C. yes, it is easier. but the code is big. and i won't start talking about how much memory you have on your deckstation and the size of your swap files. > >> . albert > > -Greg T. > InterNet: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu > BITNet : R746GT0T@CMCCVB > AOL : GRThompson albert From: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: a2rd v apple Expires: References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Florida International University, Miami Keywords: