Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Transwarp Compatibility (was Re: Apple IIGS) Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 89 19:45:59 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 22 I am very worried about the future of the Transwarp GS. The Apple //gs is a much more cumbersome and complicated animal in the way that it has been run under prodos16 and the present versions of GS/OS. The OS seems to be approaching the complication of Mac OS's. I don't like this because I have seen three upgrades for Mac's system (4.2 to 6.0 to 6.1) and each time some software has become incompatible. The software seems to take so much for granted in hardware that a minor change may break a fragile balance. In a nutshell, a future version of GS/OS may make the Transwarp inoperable. Both DOS and ProDos for the //e were small and simple and tolerant of hardware changes. Will GS/OS carry on this tradition, or will it be like the Mac, where a typical system folder takes up 600K and must be accessed for just about every operation that involves I/O or system use? Capt. Albatross jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu r746jm7e@cmccvb (bitnet)