aweiss@pacsbb.UUCP (arnold weiss) (01/27/89)
I posted this about two weeks ago, but since I have had no re- plies I'm assuming it got lost in a "black hole". I just got the latest version of the VIP LIBRARY and have found it greatly improved. When I spoke to S & D Enterprises I was told that one of the Burkes of Burke & Burke had discussed moving the Library over to OS9, But S & D wasn't sure there would be a market for it. I told him that I thought that there would be a good bit of interest in the program under OS9, and would post this here to see what the "world" thought. Any thoughts out there?
megabyte@chinet.chi.il.us (Dr. Megabyte) (01/28/89)
In article <528@pacsbb.UUCP> aweiss@pacsbb.UUCP (arnold weiss) writes: >Burke had discussed moving the [VIP] Library over to OS9, >But S & D wasn't sure there would be a market for it. I for one would buy the complete VIP library for OS9. Much as I hate to admit it, I feel the package, as an integrated system, beats out anything else available for OS9. Besides, I'd buy any useful programs from Chris Burke. He does good work. Maybe Stylograph is a better word processor, maybe Dynacalc is a better spreadsheet, maybe Profile is a better database, and certainly OSterm is a better terminal package, but as an integrated environment with a consistent user interface, nothing else can come close. -- "Do a Little Dance, Make a Little Love, Get Down Tonight!" - K.C. Mark E. Sunderlin | aka Dr. Megabyte | megabyte@chinet.UUCP | (304) 267-2911 Mail: IRS Martinsburg Computing Center P.O. Box 1208 Martinsburg, WV 25401
koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce) (01/28/89)
I have mixed feelings about the idea of trying to port the VIP series to OS9. On one hand, I consider them basically lousy programs to start with, and would hope that we could come up with better programs. (dEd is much better than VIP Disk-Zap; XCom9 is better than VIP Terminal by a long shot) The only parts of it which we don't (unquestionably) already have better versions of are word processor and possibly spreadsheet. Personally, though, I find uemacs/mroff much better than VIP Writer. On the other hand, there are a lot of RSDOS people that would be persauded to seriously consider OS9 if such a package were avalaible. And, with Chris' experience in writing RSB, it shouldn't be too big a project All in all, I wouldn't buy it, but I suspect a lot of people would, and that's a good thing. I think it would help persaude a lot of CoCo users to make the jump. Go for it! - Tim Koonce
grunwald@Katmandu.ira.uka.de (Grunwald Betr. Tichy) (02/07/89)
I would like to have VIP too. The Business market for OS9 products is just at the very beginning and I think it will grow, because there is no other Operating System, which is sold at a reasonable price and has the power of OS9. Especially MSDOS and(!) OS/2 cannot handle big disks (CDROM's), what will be a must in the future. On the other hand is UNIX no price competitor, because you need a much bigger system to give the user the same power and in case of a power failure the user of a UNIX-PC has to be an expert to get his data back, if he or she has not very much luck. Therefore write business software for OS9 and OS9/68k. The market will come.