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From: conklin@msudoc.ee.mich-state.edu (Terry Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: More wierd questions...
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 03:39:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 03:39:41 1987
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Organization: Michigan State Univ., Engineering, E. Lansing
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Keywords: Device independence, modules, DOS interchangability.
Summary: Lets stick with modularity

I for one would not like to see Kermit-65 do any type ahead buffering.
I'm using it exclusively. (Hey, just for the record, this is a GREAT
program!!! Where can I tell FTD to send the wreath of achievement? Or do
you have a local party store that takes Visa & delivers.) SpartaDOS
already does wonderful type-ahead buffering.

More importantly, the Atari OS is a great piece of work. Device
Independence is an important feature that puts it with today's efforts. In
the nature of this work, it is better to make an external load-once type
ahead program that works with everything than to lock you into using
this Kermit to achieve it. Given a good general purpose modified K:, you
could offer typeahead to everything, all the time.

It's this kind of technojunk that keeps my 8bit a competetive tool with
the IBM PC I hang on my wall.

Terry Conklin
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