Re: Big Text Machine press release

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <C7wGoA.L9z@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:
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>To: Philip McDunnough
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>Phil Shapiro of Balloons Software, the publishers of Big Text Machine, is an
>educator and the vast majority of everything available from Balloons
>Software is directed at the educational market. For that reason, just about
>everything from that company will work on II+ machines and later.

That's fine. That doesn't preclude GS support. People are capable of writing
software which adapt to the computer in use. In the NeXt world it is called
"fat binaries".
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>For your information, the vast majority of Apple II's in schools are IIe
>machines. Even those schools that have IIGS, with only 256K or 512K, they
>too are being operated as fast IIe's.

So? What does that have to do with supporting GS's as they were meant to be.
There are quite a few out side schools, and with the exception of ProTERM
I wouldn't touch a non-GS title. Writing for the IIe and below only ensures
that people will get rid of them as soon as they can. The comparison with
inexpensive clones is just too poor.
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>So, your argument has no validity.

Why? All you're saying is that the majority of Apple II's are not GS's.

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Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
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