Re: Randy's inherent hate of Apple IIs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

: > until a better unix work-alike comes around, it looks like we're
: > "stuck" with GNO/ME.  i haven't seen it myself, but if it's anything
: > like the dox say it is, then it's worth having.

: GNO is freeware and can be had at:

: http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/gno/

: and it is 75% C.  That proves Randy wrong because it is not all
: "hand coded assembly."  Most GS software is sizably C.

Show me where I said it was all assembly. And it certainly isn't Linux,
which is the last word in file system design according to Nathan.

: You can compile lots of stuff from UNIX on it, but not all.  Like
: you said, it is not a 32-bit OS.  However, this has nothing to do
: with what Randy has been bashing the GS with.  Reentrancy _is_
: possible on the GS.  GS software _is_ mostly C based, not assembly
: based (otherwise who needs a Zip or Transwarp?).  And the 65C816
: is not set in stone the last possible design of the family.  Had
: Apple chosen to support it, a 32-bit descendent could have easily
: been developed from it (look at the Pentium descended from the 8-bit
: 8080!).

Why the HELL are you making this crap up? I said that the OS is not 
reentrant, nothing more. You need to start using a threaded newsreader
or pay better attention.

I don't take kindly to people saying I'm "bashing the GS" and that I "hate
the processor" either. I've written a healthy amount of assembly code on
6500s, which doesn't sound characteristic of someone who hates them as much
as know it alls let on. My IIgs hits eleven years of use in March too. If
I were in the habit of "bashing" it like you let on, it would have been
thrown through the window long ago.
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