Re: OMG!

[wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Roy and/or Janet Miller (millers@inetnebr.com) wrote:
: Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote:
: It is fully ANSI compliant. However, after it was written and on the market,
: the ANSI standards were changed. Put a date on your ANSI.

You probably know a great deal more about the history of the ANSI standard
than I, since I am old enough to know it and young enough to have avoided
what was (from my understanding) a long approval process.  It is also worth
noting that CodeWarrior 9 Gold must be based on a lat draft of ANSI C++.

: You need to recheck the ByteWorks site. "Opus II" offers ALL the ByteWorks
: products for $95, C, Pascal, GSBasic, Logo, Assembler, et al.

Yes, but you are comparing Canuck dollars to Yankee dollars.  The numbers,
roughly speaking, do work out.  Besides, on brute force comparison,
CodeWarrior 9 Gold crushes Opus II.  That is, of course, irrelevant if you
plan on targetting the Apple II.

: > And let's face it, an old computer is an old computer.
: And an old car is an old car? So you'd trade a '49 Packerd for a 89 Yugo?

Okay, so that was a bad way to put it.  But, in general, I enjoy poking
around old computers because of their virtues.  Virtues which I have
difficulty seeing in new computers.  Whether the computer is an Apple II,
an Amiga, an Atari, or the Macintosh, I could care less.  I simply prefer
the Apple II because it was a machine I had a great deal of fun on at an
earlier age.

: > While my Apple II sits collecting dust for a lack of software,
: My IIs have more software than I can run.

Then you are lucky indeed, since original Apple software in these parts is
elusive.

: > It does not look good for the II.
: It looks great for mine. And for many of my friends. Either you are looking
: in the right places, or you haven't been willing to spend a little.

My budget is quite finite, so watching expenses are quite necessary.  The
Macintosh simply give me more to explore for the same dollar.

Byron.