Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

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Dennis Doms <SynABit@kc.invalid> wrote:
> Someone mentioned text over GUI for some purposes, which is true; GUI
> for a specific task isn't always better. However, GUI gives you
> multiwindowing, and with most people wanting to combine applications,
> that  _is_ no longer a capability that can be sacrificed. And the
> interaction is more seamless if everything is GUI.

It is possible to obtain multiwindowing without the GUI.  'screen' is a
handy Unix utility which is used in conjunction with my shell account.
It allows me to work with more than one application at any given time.
Usually, it is used to flip between multiple 'virtual' terminals.  It
is also possible to use it to divide the screen into multiple regions,
to handle data between two or more applications.  It is not exactly
something that you would want to do in the 80x25 text mode found on
most Apple II's, but the capability could exit.

> I wonder how many Apple II people would react to an AppleWorks PDA
> that ran their Apple II software? I might be interested in that
> combination. :)

Interesting idea, that PDA with a 6502 is.  And the great part is that
it is not too far fetched (as an inexpensive alternative to those
palm pilots and windows ce gizmos).

> I don't play with my Apples much any more, but I keep them. There is
> something about having a machine where you know you (as an individual)
> can actually have intimate knowledge of nearly _all_ its workings.

Horray for that!

Byron.