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From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher)
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Subject: Re: buying the //gs
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 09:23:59 EDT
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> In article <2110@ecsvax.UUCP> ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher) writes:
> >If you program, Apple is coming out with a very powerful programming
> >environment that supports Assembler, C and Pascal.  
> 
> Yes, Apple is going to come out with a powerful programming
> environment.  But don't expect a good, powerful, bug-free, MPW-like
> system right away, and don't expect Pascal for a long time to come.
> 
> Remember, the //GS is based on a new uP, and good development tools
> aren't easy to create, even (or perhaps especially) for Apple.
> Developers for the //gs have been going through significant amounts
> of pain in working with Apple's development system.
> 
> Grobbins.

Good Point, the development system is being sent out but is not in its
final form yet.  Apple says C and assembler are nearly ready but work
has just started on Pascal so it will be awhile.

Although the processor is new, it is not that different from the 6502
in terms of writing assembler, the same ole stuff plus some new, nice
features.  The new features are where the power is but it still is not
like learning a new uP from the ground up.

I expect new stuff will start to come out quickly, six months to a year
rather than a year to 18 months (as with a new Machine like the Mac or
Amiga) because there are a lot of 6502 programmers out there and they

Rick Fincher
ranger@ecsvax
smell money out there in programming for this new machine.