GNO...

[Rob Greene <greener@charter.net>]

(Moving this from the com.sys.apple2.gno newsgroup... either nobody knows 
anything about GNO or not many people look there!)

I've never tried GNO/ME, but since I had a CF card sitting around, I 
thought it might be interesting.

So far, so good.  Actually, amazing given the hardware.  However, without 
dev tools (that is, ORCA), I'm still not certain I know what to use it 
for.  

I have some questions:

1. Do the Merlin tools work from the command line?  How?  I see how to 
get MD Basic working.  Is there any way to run a BASIC program from from 
GNO?

2. What are the real memory requirements?  I'm currently sitting at 
1.25MB and I think I'm at the edge.  I tried "awk -?", but it never 
printed an error or came back, so I have a hunch I went over... man pages 
don't work... anything that seems to have any memory needs seem to fail.

3. Are serial communications possible?  I've got a direct link to my 
Linux server in the basement.  I see there was a TCP/IP stack being 
developed at one point with SLIP/PPP, but with my prior (lack of) success 
with Marinetti, I don't think I need to go there... I was thinking simple 
terminal emulator (hopefully with Z-Modem capability).

4. Can this actually accept logons over the aforementioned serial 
line?  Just curious.  It's not often that you can run multiuser on an 
8MHz machine!

5. Anything interesting going on with GNO?  Or is it pretty much dead?

Thanks!
-Rob