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From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Boston AppleFest!!
Message-ID: <2247@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 20:12:22 GMT
References: <8905080625.AA08559@batman.moravian.edu>
Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In response to my posting on AppleFest,
<8905080625.AA08559@batman.moravian.edu> nicholaA@moravian.EDU writes:
[Lots of stuff deleted everywhere]
>'Scuse me.  If you have gone to any of the technical sessions, you would have
>heard the melodious sound of one Jim Mensch of Apple Computer warbling about
>how some of the routines in Quickdraw II are now as much as 14 TIMES faster
>than the routines on system 4.0 :-)

(you know you're in trouble if you see a 'Scuse me in a followup)

>To just what you've said in summing up what the IIgs software team has done
>with System 5.0 does it an outrageous injustice -- System 5.0 has had most
>of it's major components speeded up, the tools rewritten, another major
>Load file format included for the loader (giving an effective 4x speed
>improvement in that alone), and another FST included: AppleShare.  Almost
>every major (and minor) toolset has been rewritten for resources and
>the resource manager also.  Quite a bit of work, and not very easy to sum
>up as you (and I) have so in-eloquently done.

I didn't get to attend any of the technical sessions.  I was with two other
people, a II+ owner and a hard-drive-hunter.   I took the "Speed Tour" :(

I'm sorry that I pissed off everybody.  GS/OS WAS a significant announcement,
and I'm sure I glossed over all the details that have since been revealed.  I
posted my impressions of my first AppleFest so that other people on the net
would have some idea of what was "new".  I was also trying to stay awake and
remember what I had seen and type all at the same time right after I got back
from Boston...so eloquence went right out the window :) I humbly apologize to
the developers of GS/OS for downplaying the significance of their feat.

I'm sorry I missed all the AppleLink forum leaders...I wasn't expecting them
to be in glass cases with coinslots.  I *knew* they were afoot, I just didn't
get to see any!  I didn't mean to insinuate that they were not there at all.

>Overall, a great experience.  Perhaps you expected to be grabbed by the cookie
>monster and shoved into a dark room where you would be presented with all
>of apple's "secrets" and be informed of all the wonderful things going on
>for the IIgs.  It doesn't work that way.  You get out of the experience
>what you put into it -- you had to dig a little and talk to a few people
>to find out what was really going on.

Great for you perhaps.  I *was* hoping to catch a glimpse of the cookie
monster, or at least see one HUMONGOUS new announcement.  Next time I will dig
more for the kind of details I overlooked this time around.  Thanks for
enlightening me.

Dave Seah (dseah@wpi.wpi.edu, dseah@wpi.bitnet)