Re: You people.

[Erick Wagner <wagnere@netcom.com>]

bdopson@iup.cis.edu (Butch) wrote:
>What is it with championing ancient, obsolete OS's.  How many businesses
>use Apple][ 's.  As a matter of fact, how many businesses used Apple]['s
>in 1983, the very infancy of the personal computer revolution

I use Apple II's (several of them) because:
(1) They are FUN!
(2) They get the job done
(3) They're already paid for
(4) Apple Computer, Inc. =knows= how to write system software
(5) They are =very well= documented
(6) They are extremely reliable
(7) GS/OS is cool.  Especially the architecture for File System
    Translators (FSTs)
(8) They have "better" telecommunications software
(9) The community of Apple II users can't be beat.
(10) It is the only computer I have ever used that has a soul

I don't use Apple II's for everything.  I try to use the best tool
for the job.  And more times than not, the Apple II is the most
appropriate tool.

Obsolete?  No.
Constraints?  Yes.

FWIW, MS-DOS (although it has been continually enhanced) is based on
late_70s/early_80s work.  ProDOS 8 (for 8-bit machines) was introduced
around 1984.  GS/OS (for 16-bit machines) is a product of the late 80s.

I would adjust your estimate on the "infancy of the personal computer
revolution" back by nearly a decade.  There have been many great
machines built and used -- the universe isn't centered around the IBM
PC and it's compatibles.