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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: MD-BASIC (was: Re: Apple ][ BBS Software)
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Date: 2 Jun 91 03:30:46 GMT
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psonnek@pro-mansion.cts.com (Patrick Sonnek) writes:
>greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury, Jr.) writes:

>>How can you do that [edit code] if you can't run MD-BASIC?  That is my
>>point!  If you don't have a IIgs, you are going to suffer badly.

>I've yet to find a reason to change Morgans code.

I've got one.  Lack of a hard drive.  I don't currently have plans to
network all over the place.  I want to excise the bulk I don't need right
now, so I can get it to run on 2 800K devices.

At least with ACOS, you get the functionality and ease of coding found in
MD-BASIC as standard packaging.  True, you don't have things like arrays,
but you aren't stuck with running another clone system.  If you don't
modify the code you are given, you might as well be running an IBM
system.

>And to add to the list of kudos, I to have Morgans support to be outstanding,
>as well as the support from the 90+ proline sysops.

So far I've just been told basically that my lack of a hard drive was a
deficiency in my hardware, not with ProLine.  I feel it is equally a
deficiency in ProLine that it is requiring me to have said hardware.  This
came from Morgan, in a public message.

Then again, I haven't gotten my registration cards sent in yet, but my
registration hangs on whether I can get it to run or not.

>ProLine:  psonnek@pro-mansion    Sysop Pro-mansion: 507/726-6181
>Internet: psonnek@pro-mansion.cts.com  MCImail:     psonnek
>UUCP:     crash!pro-mansion!psonnek  ARPA: crash!pro-mansion!psonnek@nosc.mil
>BITNET:   psonnek%pro-mansion.cts.com@nosc.mil
>               <<Real programmers don't program in HLL's.>>
>               <<HLL's are for wimpy, application coders!>>

And you run a ProLine site.  BASIC is an HLL.  Oh, forgot, you have said
you found no reason to edit the code.

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