AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (03/13/89)
>Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 22:39:32 CST >From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> >Subject: Re: Disappointed in the IIgs (was: GS/OS and programming > standards) > >[...] Any blame for the performance of [AppleWorks GS] is on Apple's >head, because of their lack of software support and the lousy >file-handling and memory-overhead associated with GS/OS. What? (1) Claris was developing and testing AWGS _with_ GS/OS, and they knew exactly how fast and how well it worked before they released it. Developers are ultimately responsible for doing whatever is necessary to come up with a product that is usable. You can't blame GS/OS for everything. (2) What is "lack of software support"? (3) GS/OS does not have "lousy file handling"--what are you talking about? (4) GS/OS takes more memory than ProDOS 16 did; how does this justify AWGS 1.0 crashing a lot? >I refuse to accept GS/OS as a good OS, by the way, because I have >worked with HFS for the Mac, which written much more efficiently. In what way is Mac OS (I think that's the right term; HFS is a volume format) more efficient than GS/OS? >jeremy mereness >jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (arpa) --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons