Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!douglas From: douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: A Nutty Idea Message-ID: <8732@reed.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 88 22:54:38 GMT References: <231@unsvax.UUCP> <6276@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 29 Keywords: volunteer GNU-like PD freeware, finder, windows Computer: Apple ][c In article <6276@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rmpinchback@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Reid M. Pinchback) writes: >In article <231@unsvax.UUCP> tlhingan@unsvax.uucp (Eugene Tramaglino) writes: >>If everyone on the net with the appropriate skills volunteered 5 (five) >>hours per week of their time, we could write our own OS, editor, utils, >>etc, and leave IBM, Apple, HP, and everyone else in the dust. > > Not such a nutty idea... > Providing, >that is, that we could agree on WHAT was to be done, HOW it was to be done, >and HOW to maintain the resultant code. > I think it would be quite useful to have a finder-type program for the IIe and IIc, using the mousetext characters and the mouse. I think one could be written that would execute commands extremely quickly. (That is, your only waits would be for disk accesses that you were doing anyway.) This would be best accomplished using a general windowing utility (not involved with the mouse) that supported generic windows of text, which would also have to be written. One would direct screen output to the window program, and tell it what window to send it to. I may tackle this over the summer. Send comments on this and apple's lawsuit to /dev/null, or if not available, put them in the trash can. -- Doug Reeder USENET: ...!tektronix!reed!douglas 10 Cyclopedia Square from BITNET: douglas@reed.UUCP Terminus City from ARPA: tektronix!reed!douglas@berkley Terminus,The Foundation Box 502 Reed College,Portland,OR 97202