Re: what is the //gs?

[Joe Kohn <joko@NoMoreSpam!crl.com>]

phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:
 >As the buying public, we purchase software and hardware which has
 >very little if any testing done. Our purchases serves two purposes.
 >We beta test products for companies as well as fund new projects which
 >make our current systems obsolete. Thus the cycle continues.
 
That may be true in the PC world, but I'd say that our Apple II programmers
and publishers are a little more diligent than that.
 
As an example, a little more than a year ago, Shareware Solutions II
released Chris Vavruska's NiftySpell, a GS/OS spell checker that works with
any GS/OS software.
 
Since its release, there has not been one single bug report. In fact, no one
has reported any problems whatsoever. None, zip, nada.
 
Before its release, NiftySpell went through a vigorous (many) months-long
beta test, and let me tell ya, that was an extremely painful process. BUT...
it was only painful for the programmer and publisher and beta test team.
 
And in the end, I'd say we managed to release a version 1.0 that is as
rock solid as any v1.0 release has ever been. It wasn't easy to get there,
but in the long-run, it was a heckuva lot less painful than releasing a
buggy v1.0. 
 
Joe Kohn
Publisher of NiftySpell
 
http://www.crl.com/~joko