Re: Your favourite [Commodore] enemy - the Spectrum, the Atari, the CPC, the Apple 2, or the MSX???

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <9307085f.0212300650.69f3cfac@posting.google.com>,
Dosius <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote:
>Larry Anderson <foxnhare@bigvalley.net> wrote in message
>news:<3E0FB420.6C5A2290@bigvalley.net>...
>> Yeah, that's kinda what I've heard over the years.  Pitty, everyone says
>> how expandable the Apple II platform is (with it's card slots) but
>> nothing recently is done or at least heard about it.  Never hear of any
>> interent related projects, speedup components, GUI OSs, or other modern
>> technology interfacing/communication developments.  Given it had one of
>> the better DOSs, tons of high end development tools, and hard drives,
>> etc., more so than most of the other 6502 systems, it sure seems to be
>> lagging behind in retro support/represnetation.  :-/
>
>Yeah...
>
>If LNG could run on a C64, why can't there be a *x clone for the 128K
>Apple //e - with 80-columns?

It depends...first, what is "LNG?"  If it's just a shell of some sort, you
could try out Davex.  I used to use it all the time...still do, if I don't
want to fart around with clicking widgets in the Finder and only need to do
8-bit stuff.  If there's more to it (like a task switcher or a multitasker),
you would need some hardware that's not normally present in a IIe.  Past
attempts at creating multitaskers for the IIe have usually needed a mouse
card or some custom hardware to generate periodic interrupts to tell the
system to switch from one process to the next.  There's also the limited
utility of running multiple processes in just 128K.

There is a more fully-featured UN*Xish environment for the IIGS called
GNO/ME (not to be confused with the GNOME desktop project).  It takes
advantage of the IIGS's additional capabilities to offer a more robust
environment (there's still no protected memory or paging, but at least it
offers multitasking).

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