Xref: utzoo comp.os.os9:343 comp.sys.m6809:996
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!brahms.berkeley.edu!koonce
From: koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: VIP Library Under OS9
Summary: Can't we do better?
Message-ID: <19603@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 89 00:33:43 GMT
References: <528@pacsbb.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce)
Followup-To: comp.os.os9
Distribution: na
Lines: 19

I have mixed feelings about the idea of trying to port the VIP series to OS9.

On one hand, I consider them basically lousy programs to start with,
and would hope that we could come up with better programs.  (dEd is
much better than VIP Disk-Zap; XCom9 is better than VIP Terminal by a
long shot) The only parts of it which we don't (unquestionably)
already have better versions of are word processor and possibly
spreadsheet.  Personally, though, I find uemacs/mroff much better than
VIP Writer.

On the other hand, there are a lot of RSDOS people that would be persauded to
seriously consider OS9 if such a package were avalaible.  And, with Chris'
experience in writing RSB, it shouldn't be too big a project

All in all, I wouldn't buy it, but I suspect a lot of people would, and that's
a good thing.  I think it would help persaude a lot of CoCo users to make the
jump.  Go for it!

				- Tim Koonce