**** Ch.A.O.S. ****

[Jeffrey Wood <woodzy@delphi.com>]

Hi, and welcome to Ch.A.O.S. Country.  Welcome to the revolution.  The Cheyenne Area Orphaned Systems, or Ch.A.O.S., is a club devoted solely for the preservation of classic non-IBM systems, such as ours, and for the defeat of Microsoft.  If we wanted IB
M compatability, we would have abandoned our systems long ago.  Those of us who do have IBMs, but still use our classics, only bought them out of necessity, such as for work or school.��This is not a political organization.  We do not hold any specific r
ight wing or left wing political views.  We do believe in fair competition and Microsoft is NOT fair.  We spent all that time and money on our respective systems because the performed the task or tasks we bought them for.  Wether it be for gaming, educat
ion, office, or whatever, our classic systems performed upto our expectations, and in some cases, beyond the original design.  Why should we abandoned everything we put into our systems?��I have been working on the designs of two programs that I feel wou
ld unite all of our systems, yet retain the sovereignty or flavor of each individual system:��1.  A terminal shell with game maker to allow two or more non-compatable systems to play games over the modem or in a mini-network.  Of course, standard protoco
ls will have to be set between computers to ensure game play.  But, graphics between two different systems wont have to be the same because screen data wont be sent, just tiny info packets.  The games would take full advantage of the graphics and sound c
apabilities of each individual system.  The games would be played as close to real time as possible.��2.  A DEVICE OPERATING SYSTEM (DOS) desgined on a bi-level format:  The primary level is a whole new computer that provides cross-platform compatability
 between our classic systems.  The computer will be based on the PowerPC.  This will allow each classic system to be enhanced to that of at least a 486.  Without losing much compatability with the existing sytems.  Full compatability is not guaranteed be
cause of the new enhancements to each individual operating system.  But, at least you wont have to abandon your whole classic system!  The secondary level is a whole new disk operating system for the original classic.  This will allow direct disk access 
communication between ALL systems.  Yes, even IBM.  Just imagine, a C64 computer operating system with 38k free RAM, can now have as much as 3.75 Meg free RAM on a 4 Meg System!  This is directly accessable without bankswitching or even use as a RAMDISK!
  Just imagine the fresh, new applications that can be developed that retained the original C64s flavor.  No, this is not limited to the C64, but to all classic systems, such as the Atari, Tandy CoCo, VIC20 (YES!), Apple, etc.��All of our classic systems
 have their own uniqueness, their own distinctiveness.  That is why we refused to follow the industry or marketing trends.  This would allow us to preserve our systems and at the same time develop a cross-platform industry standard.  Who says we have to 
follow the Microsoft standard?  Lets follow a standard, sure, but we should also be allowed to keep our systems we have devoted so much time and energy into!���Cheyenne Area Orphaned Systems�c/o Jeffrey Wood�813 Covered Wagon Drive�Cheyenne, Wyoming  820
07-1671�