HFISCHER@USC-ECLB@sri-unix.UUCP (08/28/83)
IBM's Product Center division says (officially to those at the PC fair) that DR Logo will be soon available for the PC's thru them. IBM Boca, the folks doing the Logo, say "those guys are fully wrong". To prove it, they let me play with the Logo at the PC fair, and gave me the manual proofs which went to the printers. (The manual is now at the printers. WHERE DID YOU SAY IT IS AVAILABLE "LOCALLY". I would like to buy a copy now! Which store do I contact?) The manual is enormous. Seemed to be the size of the technical reference. All for a language for four year olds and list hackers! Reading along in the IBM Logo manual (the Logo produced by Logo Systems Limited of Canada, the Apple Logo writers), I was interested in how they handle colors and paletes (same as Basic). I was also interested, for list hacking, about memory restrictions. I was very puzzled, because the manual seemed to imply that you asked for specific load areas, a default, 128 and 256 stuck in my head, and that there was no limitation on individual list sizes (as with the 32K "object" limitation in APL). Herm Fischer (HFischer @ eclb)