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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: FasText INIT
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Date: 22 May 91 02:58:50 GMT
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mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:

>In article <1991May21.054549.25355@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) 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.

   You're reading things into this.

>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.

  As I've discussed with you before, *may* is definitely not the term.

>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.

   At this point, Orca 2.0 is just as much vaporware as is the GNO project.
But I've seen the GNO project, and know that it *is* going somewhere.

   If you really must know exactly what the deal is, here it is in a nutshell.
It doesn't matter one whit if Mike adds console driver support to the shell,
because the shell has to be replaced.  But if the utilities are changed to
require the console driver, then we're up a crick- because we can patch a 
lot of things but we can't patch a GS/OS driver- you'd shit bricks.
(Unless Apple was so gracious as to provide us with source- or better yet,
if I become an Apple partner, YOU'd probably get to patch it. Imagine that-
you working for me.
   Note that there is an implied smiley- I'm poking you in the ribs and
hoping you don't knock my head off.
   Back to the subject, I'm going to be contacting Mike tomorrow (if he's
not off on one of his extended lunches) to talk to him about this.  I very
well might be talking to DTS soon too. $300 isn't THAT much money.

--
Jawaid Bazyar               |  "Twenty seven faces- with their eyes turned to
Graduated!/Comp Engineering |    the sky. I have got a camera, and an airtight
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          |     alibi.."
   Apple II Forever!        |  I need a job... Be privileged to pay me! :-)