Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: The Nifty //GS and Apple Support Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 89 17:43:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 One thing... I understand that the GS is a pain to write anything big on, but much of that is because there is as yet not that many good development systems for it. GS/OS is still buggy, APW is buggy, and the C language isn't very good either. The Mac was in this situation some years back as well. Heck, originally the damned machine had to be programmed with a Lisa. But people pressed on, and now there are Mac //cx's that burn through compilers from many companies. There is no reason the //gs can't do the same thing if apple put that kind of energy into the machine. I wish people would stop complaining about the //gs' architecture as the source all the problems; dedicated third party vendors get around this, and the //gs is a dream conpared to the original Mac 512, 8 registers and all. If decent development systems were made for the GS (on the same level as ThinkC, TurboC and Turbo Pascal) then developers would not be complaining as much. But not even Apple has done this, and as with the Mac, they have to make the first move. jeremy mereness jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (arpa)