Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!pro-pac.cts.com!tomj From: tomj@pro-pac.cts.com (Tom Jenkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Comments re:GSOS 5.0 Message-ID: <8905170617.AA11835@crash.cts.com> Date: 17 May 89 03:36:04 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tomj@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 39 Hey finally someone speaks out for Apple!!! Thank you Matt. Your insight on this typical problem is greatly welcomed. Again, I for one thank you for your views. It is your tenacity and perserverance that has held us (apple ][ owners) together in times such as these. Although I admit openly that I question Apple's policy toward reviving the life of the ][ line, and even have publically stated (so shoot me!) that if after this year, if I don't have the fabled factory funmachine (GS+), I'm gonna move to MeSsy-DOS. Ha Ha. It is with honest opinion that I encourage you, and others, to offer the technical defense needed to keep the Apple ][ line flourishing. What a surprise it is to download 135K of InfoApples, read through posts and post of Macintosh Operating System 7.0 news (on the Info-Apple?...naw...) and to come across a well thought out rebuttle to someone who may not have all the facts. THESE KIND OF THOUGHTS ARE MOST WELCOMED! Please keep in mind, that the ProLine system is often where the future of Apple is shared with the common modemer (and non-modemer alike) such as myself. As you know, we typically get information well ahead of the software and hardware stores. To read about the plus's and some internal details of an Operating System ahead of it's release is truth to Apple's commitment concerning the ][ line. Believe me, I had some serious doubts before I read that post. But after perusing it, I am starting to believe that maybe, just maybe, there is life in the old ][ (and GS, since it does not work on older machines anyway). May I recommend that you guys (at Apple) do a similar question answer thing for version 5.0 of GSOS? It would go a long way toward answering some questions we all had I'm sure. Once again, thanks Matt. -- UUCP: {nosc, cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.COM} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tomj ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tomj@nosc.MIL INET: tomj@pro-pac.CTS.COM - BITNET: pro-pac.UUCP!tomj@PSUVAX1