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From: dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert)
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Subject: Re: FasText INIT
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Date: 22 May 91 02:23:39 GMT
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mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:

>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.

Well...  He was talking mostly about change in the way the libraries do things.
Like, if Mike decided to switch to using the console driver instead of the
mess he's using now.  Our vaporware would have a heck of a time making GS/OS
into a multitasking OS, and therefore it would be difficult to trap screen
writes from concurrently running processes.  In other words, the multi-tasking
would be useless to programs developed to use the GS/OS mechanism.  Since
I am an ORCA customer, and this is desirable to me, it's not exactly misleading
is it?

>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.

Agreed.  Sort of...  The kind of things Mike would have to do to cause problems
for us would also cause problems for things previously compiled to work with
the new ORCA.  ie: no backwards compatibility.  Blame it on us, but I think
this really lies with the absense of foresight in Mike.

>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.

Well, I didn't feel that way, but I guess I understand the situation a little
better.  Jawaid's comment wasn't of this magnitude and most likely should have
been followed by :-).  I'm not bashing, I'm just defending him for the somewhat
unsolicited response.

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