Re: Apple II GS Question

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <26MAR199702581305@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

>    That's always been a major limitation of the Mac, no character
>generator for text. If I want to run Linux on my PC, I have a nice
>fast text interface (same with GNO on the IIgs) but the Macintosh
>has to use bitmapped fonts in a window. Fast or slow, all computers
>should have a character generator available IMO.

UGH! That would really suck, Frankly I can hardly stand to look
a hardware based "text screen" on any computer after using text
editors and the like windowed on a graphics screen. A text screen
is so limited and confining. If a terminal is windowed on a graphics
screen it can be any size or shape, with any font or color.

As for speed, my old Mac Centris 650 (25Mhz 68040) slings text
around in a window a lot faster than my 7Mhz zipped IIgs does in
text mode.

The problem with including a character generator is that lazy
programmers will use it, making programs that might otherwise
be attractive practically unusable.

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