Re: 8bit shells

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <1MAR199418155030@pavo.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca> wrote:

>	Actually, "MouseDesk" (or "Apple II Desktop") work just fine on
>my unenhanced 128k Apple //e, though you need Double-Hi-Res graphics 
>supported. You can load it up off a single-sided 5.25 floppy disk, but
>you won't have any room for desk accessories (not to be confused with
>GS CDA/NDA Desk Accessories, even though they both work from the Apple 
>menu). A mouse is pretty much needed too, but then again, Quinn said
>he wanted an 8-bit shell, not GUI -- shells are usually CLIs.. ;-)

Wow I'm not really the only one still using this old relic of a program? Cool.
I noticed one interesting problem with it - it works great with network volumes
on my workstation card equipped //e but it locks up my IIgs rather tightly
when I try to use a network volume with it. Wonder why that is
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