Re: GS/OS for xgs emulator?

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 12 Mar 1997, Dan Yertzell wrote:

> 
> 
> MikeW50 <mikew50@aol.com> wrote in article > 
> > It would be nice if XGS would handle the formats that _are_ legally
> > available. I personally took a look at it and rejected it in favor of Gus
> > without looking further for that very reason. (If Gus had serious
> problems
> > I might have looked harder, but for me it doesn't.)
> > 
> > Mike Westerfield
> > 
> 
> Actually, I don't.  
> 
> Gus has the advantage of running on Macs, so it can read the goofy Apple //
> disk format.  I'm running xgs on a pentium pc, which will never be able to
> read apple disks.  
> 
> So many problems could have been avoided if Apple had followed the standard
> for disk drives and formats, instead of going their own way.  

Apple following the standard???  What have you been sniffing??  Apple had
5.25" drives  available before there even was an IBM PC to standardize on
and they were the first out with 3.5" drives.  How do you conform to a
so-called standard that comes out AFTER you have your product on the 
market.

> OTOH, when Apple goes belly up in a couple of years, we won't have to worry
> about this kind of crap anymore!    :-)
> 
> Dan

I've been hearing this on a regular basis since 1983.  They haven't gone
away yet and aren't bloody well likely to unless something really drastic
happens.  They've had a few problems lately, but they do seem to be 
overcoming them.  Do really find out what's going on with Apple you
have to pay attention and read between the half-truths that most
reporters/editors like to print about Apple.

Greg B.