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From: nelson@pro-europa.cts.com (Nelson Minar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Supporting our own Apple //s
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Date: 18 May 89 15:44:38 GMT
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It seems to me that some of the best Apple software has ALWAYS been home
brewed.  The best example would be terminal software, especially for the Apple
Cat modem. Even now we have the budding IInix project - a brave attempt to
port Unix over to an Apple //.

However, if we Apple users do get "dumped" from Apple, its going to require
some sort of organization to keep things going.  If 18 people release ProDOS
3.0, then no one will know what to run - standards are very convienient things
to keep going.

I remember reading a story recently about some computer built that was quite
powerful. Hacker types recognized what a neat machine it was, and for a year a
lot of people bought them, at which point the company turned around and
orphaned the computer.  Since then, one of the largest user groups around has
formed around that computer, with the sole intent of advancing software
development for it, and they are largely successful.

Apple has to give up on the // some time. The //e and ][+ technology is well
over 10 years old now, and eventually no one else is going to buy into it.
Accept this, and dig your fallout shelter.

nelson@pro-europa.cts.com                                  cogito ergo non sum
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