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From: mj@myriasb.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: net.micro.ti
Subject: Re: TI 99/4a Logo II?
Message-ID: <476@myriasb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 11:35:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 11:35:23 1985
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Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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[ crunch! crunch! ]

I am responding in news since mail was returned by bellcore with "user
unknown" message. Follows contents of my letter:

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Here in Edmonton is a store which right now is advertising Logo II for
something like 99.95 (Canadian). Its address is "Nova Computerware",
52 Airport Road, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (sorry, no code). Phone
(403) - 452 - 0372. "Phone & mail orders welcome". Open Tue-Sat 1:00 -
5:00 p.m. They have also some other stuff for TI 99.
Please be advised that though I consider Logo II an excellent
implementation - if you take into account space and an architecture
constraints - it has one serious deficiency and one very serious and
annoying bug. 
A deficiency is that you cannot dump your turtle screen to a dot-matrix
printer. Since there is no link to assembler of which I would know I
cannot patch it.
An essence of a bug is a fact that editor accepts lists of limited
length. Since a load from mass storage (like disk) apparently goes
through the editor a net effect is as follows:
   whenever you have program which generates longer lists (like ANIMAL
   for example) and you will save it after running a while, then on
   the next attempt to load it back a system will quietly crash.
You may program around this - like splitting lists into dummy procedures
on save and restoring on load - but this is neither obvious nor
convenient and for sure difficult to explain to kids.
                      ...ihnp4!Alberta!myrias!mj

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I do not have any connections neither with "Nova Computerware" nor TI.
The info on availability only reproduces what I have seen in an ad.