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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Contructive discussions on Apple future (Was:Re: (none))
Message-ID: <940@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 23:46:08 GMT
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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In article <9883@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
-->Any substantially UNIX-like system for the IIGS would be very useful.
-->You're not likely to get this out of Apple, though, because they think
-->of the Apple II line as for kiddies and "obviously" you don't want to
-->turn kiddies loose in a UNIX shell.
-->
Perhaps I wasnt very clear in my original msg - I wasnt looking for my
list of things FROM Apple, I was looking for folks out there in USENET-land
to contribute to the list of tools that they themselves saw as necessary
to feel like they were getting the full use of their machine.  And I was
looking for the list with an eye to encouraging all those C programmers
and assembly writers and even some of those Pascal people to write their
little fingers off writing some of these tools.  Why?  I often see folks
looking for projects to take on.  Porting some of the utilities available
in MSDOS and UNIX arenas should be able to be ported easily enough.

As for why I said I was going to wait for a good C compiler - well, maybe
APW C isnt all that bad - I just remember reading folks saying that they
were not about to use the stdio package since it made their programs a minimum
or 15k for hello world.  I thought at the time that it was a bad linker, but
then someone else told me that the code in generate was rather large
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