Re: Have we forgotten this newsgroup is about the _Apple2_ ????

[cjohnson@bronze.coil.com (Christopher A. Johnson)]

In article <2oufeq$guh@paris.ics.uci.edu>, Orion Pax <jlee@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>Rob Tibshirani (phillip@utstat.toronto.edu) wrote:
>: In article <2oqbtc$roj@paris.ics.uci.edu> jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax) writes:
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>: >So what are the non-hardware characteristics of the IIGS that make it a
>: >world apart and different from a traditional Apple II?


The biggest software difference between an 8-bit Apple II and the IIgs is 
the concept of relocatable code.  Sure you cool write a program to 
relocate itself on a II, but with a GS you virtually never need to worry 
about picking a nice address to put your code at.  This is a very big 
difference, esp. if you do anything with assembly.  It makes memory 
management easier, more flexible, and more efficient.