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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: CoCo Logo
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Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 01:45:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 16 01:45:47 1983
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The R/S Color Logo is quite a disappointment, indeed.  Granted, it has
some features that are neat, like "HATCH", but quite frankly it's
next to useless for anything OTHER than keeping your 5 year old
off the streets.  (And I'll bet that Radio Shack would be the first
to admit this--they have aimed their market here very well.)
This is compared to Apple LOGO (or Terrapin) which, when I saw for
the first time, made me want to go out and finally buy a PC.

CoCo LOGO has no lists, nor any functions, either!  No way to return
a value.  The CoCo would make a damn fine LOGO machine if they just
trashed the BASIC ROMs and used all its 64K.  I think that OS-9 might
even be too much for it--I'd settle for a bootable, self-contained
operating environment completely optimized for the language.
And they could still include "HATCH"!
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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