Re: FS: APPLE IIGS

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5j6lbt$h26$4@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
>:    The other contentions, that GS/OS has less of a builtin shell than
>: Windoze is much more true.

>Err, you mean DOS is built in?  You mean Applesoft BASIC isn't built in?

   DOS is not Applesoft Basic by a long shot. They may complement each
other, but unless you're "just tinkering", Applesoft Basic and no DOS
is pretty painful to do stuff in.

   Also, read what I said above: GS/OS. Applesoft is not built into
GS/OS; it's an optional component accessible only via ProDOS 8
(i.e. not GS/OS) and Basic.System. Delete those two files, and you
have a GS/OS system without a command line. [And a command line
without GS/OS is, as I said above, not very useful in the long run].

   GS/OS has no builtin shell, while Win95 (== DOS 7 + Win 4) does.
However, both let you add in better shells (GNO/ME's gsh on the GS,
4dos on the PC) very easily, giving you the choice between GUI and
command line. On the other hand, the Mac is a veritable totalitarian
state saying "you will do it OUR way" until you reformat the drive and
put MkLinux on it or something else to make it useful.

Nathan Mates
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