sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (12/16/83)
The R/S Color Logo is quite a disappointment, indeed. Granted, it has some features that are neat, like "HATCH", but quite frankly it's next to useless for anything OTHER than keeping your 5 year old off the streets. (And I'll bet that Radio Shack would be the first to admit this--they have aimed their market here very well.) This is compared to Apple LOGO (or Terrapin) which, when I saw for the first time, made me want to go out and finally buy a PC. CoCo LOGO has no lists, nor any functions, either! No way to return a value. The CoCo would make a damn fine LOGO machine if they just trashed the BASIC ROMs and used all its 64K. I think that OS-9 might even be too much for it--I'd settle for a bootable, self-contained operating environment completely optimized for the language. And they could still include "HATCH"! -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca