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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: FasText INIT
Message-ID: <53187@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 22:29:59 GMT
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In article <1991May21.054549.25355@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes:
>
>
>> Also note that Orca/m v2.0 is due out this summer, and it includes
>>things like:
>>  
>> - full GS/OS support in the shell (8k paths, 32k command lines, 
>>   console drive used for text)
>
>   I sure hope he doesn't do anything that would limit multitasking
>ability.
>
>Jawaid Bazyar               |  "Twenty seven faces- with their eyes turned to

Just what is that supposed to mean?  You're implying that by using the OS,
Mike is somehow taking some desirable feature away from ORCA customers, which
is a totally misleading statement.

No multitasking ability for the IIgs exists in system software and GS/OS is
specifically _not_ a multi-tasking OS.  Somebody somewhere may be working on
some kind of multitasking ability, but to not use GS/OS features in ORCA
because this _might_ happen is lunacy of the highest order.

I also think it's rather unfriendly of you to imply that developers should
inhibit current features in favor of vapor features like some kind of
multi-tasking.  People who don't know that much about the IIgs might believe
they shouldn't buy ORCA 2.0 based on your comments.
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