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From: dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ACOS/GBBS (was: Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.073626.23507@crash.cts.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 07:36:26 GMT
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> In article <1991Jun3.180606.29748@unlinfo.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig
> Lury Jr.) writes: >cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) writes:
> >>unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
> >
> >>>	But I know that ACOS doesn't have arrays (or at least didn't when
> >>>I looked at it last summer to write a full screen editor in).. No arrays
> >>>makes a hell of a lot of stuff a pain to write.
> >
> >>No, ACOS may not have arrays, but MACOS does.  Most people prefer to use 
> >>MACOS over ACOS, as it does have arrays, both one and two dimensional.
> >
> >However if Lancey discovers you are running MACOS instead of ACOS, you can
> >kiss all rights to upgrades and support away.

MACOS is just what its name says, "Modified ACOS"... If you have paid for ACOS
and are legally running a GBBS, you can do whatever the heck you want to it,
including modifying ACOS, since you paid for the thing... Running a board off
MACOS when you never bought ACOS is another story, though...

Just for the record, I was also an ACOS SysOp and I switched to a BASIC
program, EBBS (sort of like Proline, but not as powerful or as expensive :)...
It's a much more flexible program than anything in ACOS ever was... 

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