Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple IIgs future Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 89 15:54:14 GMT References: <8901291814.aa20287@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 49 David A. Lyons (DAL Systems) writes... >System Disk 3.2 is compatible with AppleShare. It works--I've used >it. Documentation on AppleTalk documentation is available from APDA. Please E-mail to me what it is capable of, such as filesharing on Mac servers, acceessing different Appletalk zones, connecting through Kinetics boxes to Ethernet networks, and the possibility of TCP/IP interfacing like the Stanford program Mac/IP for Macintoshes. All of the buildings on Carnegie-Mellon's campus are wired for Ethernet and Appletalk via Kinetics boxes. I worry about the GS because I have never seen an effective version of Chooser running on it, nor a TCP/IP implementation to telnet to Vaxes and workstations. >>Meanwhile, the GS remains unexploited... even the Ensoniq sound chip >>has been wasted; that thing can sound like the best $2000 >>synthesizers yet I've heard better stuff on a Amiga. >Have you used Diversi-Tune by Bill Basham of Diversified Software >Research? Yes, I have heard beta versions, and I wan't too impressed. I have one of the synthesizers that uses the Q-chip from Ensoniq and the beta Diversa-Tune didn't really impress me. Another factor was the noisy signal the machine produces. My biggest disappointment, however, is that Apple has pushed the Macintosh into the high-end synthesis market instead of the GS. Perhaps 2.5MHz is not fast enough to handle the high speed required for MIDI processing, but why hasn't there been a MIDI keyboard interface written that turns the GS into a synthesizer; i.e. plays the Ensoniq chip directly from a keyboard? If the GS is not capable of this fro some reason, I want to know; because if/when I ever get one, I want to write just such a program. ...and oh yes... I agree that there is no real subdirectory support in Appleworks; prodos was pretty new then, and Lissner was writing for two drive machines. But otherwise, it is the best text-based interface I have ever seen, and the GS performs exceptionally well on its text screen. I would like to make a SHR Prodos shell of this, including a mouse character for a few simple operation that the mouse does best, and different color text. Maybe a strange idea, but it would be faster and smoother than the window manager. >--David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs > DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 > P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 > North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons jeremy mereness jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu r746jm7e@cmccvb (Bitnet)