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Subject: in the making
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Date: 29 Mar 89 16:29:13 GMT
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>Which makes me wonder: what is happening out there right now? I am intensely
>interested in hearing what wonderful things people are working on in their
>spare time.

>       - Andy Nicolas has just recently made big splash with ShrinkIt.

>       - Dave Lyons has put out a number of wonderful programs, topped off
>         with that most wonderful of all utilities, Nifty List.

>       - Scott Lindsey tossed of a little integrated package now being
>         published by Claris.

>       - I myself have written a memory resident disk editor in the spirit
>         of Watson and The Inspector, and have also written an online help
>         system for BASIC.SYSTEM (it would describe commands, explain why the
>         error that just occured did so, had a built-in calculator, number
>         base converter, notepad, and calender...all available in their own
>         little text windows by holding down Open-Apple and another key).

>What else are people working on? What other gems can we find in the dark
>corners of people's hard disks and floppies? I think that if we get some ideas
>flowing, we could start a new generation of "neat hacks" that made the Apple
>II the coolest computer a person could possibly have!

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Keith Rollin  ---  Apple Computer, Inc.  ---  Developer Technical Support
>INTERNET: keith@apple.com
>    UUCP: :decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl:!apple!keith
>"Argue for your Apple, and sure enough, it's yours" - Keith Rollin, Contusions

Well Keith, one of us just came up with disk-based commands for the apple,
and just sent off a multitasking driver to apple2-l that can process
background tasks, at minimal slowdown of the processor, and in
addition to only requiring .5 K for itself and its buffers, doesn't
require the person writing a task for it to know a thing about
multitasking or interrupt drivers.

Anybody tried Daemon yet?

--
Michael J Pender Jr  Box 1942 c/o W.P.I.        I wrote SHELL and Daemon,
greyelf@wpi.bitnet   100 Institute Rd.          send bug reports, suggestions,
greyelf@wpi.wpi.com  Worcester, Ma 01609        checks to me.

P.S.  I help people too.