Re: In search of ORCA

[glyn@cs.ualberta.ca (Devin Reade)]

In article <61gf96$6h9@catapult.gatech.edu>,
Martin Tuck <gt5460c@acmez.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Quinn Dunki (dunki@h2oent.com) wrote:
>
>: I would very cheerfully pay for it (I repented from my days of pirating
>
>	I think ORCA is still sold by the ByteWorks.

It most certainly is.

>	If all you want is a shell, a great choice is GNO which is now
>freeware.

That's literally true, however ... anyone who has heard my ramblings
in the past knows I'm one of GNO's strongest supporters.  Despite
(because of?) that, I also think that an ORCA-less GNO installation
is missing a significant portion of its potential; GNO itself has
no compilers or assemblers.

I grant that one could conceivably use non-ORCA products for program
development under GNO, but I know of nobody who has done so in 
recent years, and therefore I don't know what is involved in doing so.
(I think one of the latest people to release a Merlin-developed 
product built specifically for GNO was Albert Chin-A-Young.)

Yes, I'm ignoring your implication that GNO was suggested for a 
non-programming system.  C'est la vie.

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	Devin Reade	gdr@myrias.com