From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: what are computers for?
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.280
Posted: Wed Dec  8 13:16:46 1982
Received: Thu Dec  9 03:55:57 1982

>From lauren@Lbl-Unix  Wed Dec  8 13:11:47 1982
To: ELIOT@Mit-Mc
Cc: INFO-CPM@BRL
Via:  Lbl-Unix; 8 Dec 82 4:33-EST
Via:  Brl; 8 Dec 82 4:38-EST
Via:  Brl-Bmd; 8 Dec 82 4:58-EST

Eliot,

You must be kidding.  What do you use ANY micro for? MARC simplyy provides 
a decent environment and a reasonable set of utilities to help enable
the user to comfortably do whatever it is they *want* to do.

Since the environment is reasonable to start with, all the P.D. programs
like DUPUSER, XDIR, D, and a multitude of others are not needed with
MARC, since those programs were efforts to raise CP/M to a more
reasonable level than where it started.  Some of the other useful
programs (like SQ, USQ, DIFF, etc.) now have MARC versions which
are generally more flexible than their CP/M counterparts, since they
can take advantage of those features already in MARC, instead of having
to fight their way around restrictions in CP/M.  Most, if not all,
of these sorts of utilities should be released with the system, assuming
I can get the proper permissions from the original authors.

I will probably not be in a position to read mail again for a couple
of days, so if you have any more questions, please don't expect a terribly
quick reply.  In any case, I might suggest that some of your questions
(particularly the last) might be better handled in private mail or with
a simple phone call.  I don't think it's fair to the other readers
for us to turn this list into a continuous MARC question and answer
session.  Thanks much.

--Lauren--