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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS Hack #1
Summary: Say what you want!
Keywords: Expressload, Hack, Easter Egg
Message-ID: <1167@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 90 13:15:02 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.030214.15564@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
Lines: 54

In article <1990Feb26.030214.15564@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
> Well folks, here it is: My very first GS/OS hack.  Back in the days of DOS 3.3,
> if there wasn't a way to do something or do it the way you wanted, you hacked
> DOS
> However, that doesn't mean that the inventive spirit can't
> find new ways to manifest itself.
> 
> [Raising My Hand]
> Mr. Software Engineering, can we please get rid of that silly "Welcome to
> Apple //GS"?  That phrase doesn't even make semantic sense in english.
> "Welcome to Macintosh" is more personable, as Mac could be the name of a 
> place (and probably is).  How about "Aren't you glad bought a //gs", or
> "Please wait while loading GS/OS", or "Go take a nap, I'll let you know when
> I'm done" (just kidding, Sys 5.0 is G R E A T !).
> 
> [End of SoapBox]
> 
> Jawaid Bazyar               | This message was posted to thousands of machines

As a hacker and computer engineer why didn't you just change the message?
Yeh, I know, it's in ROM, but I couldn't help it :-).


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