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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Applefest '89 and other stuff
Message-ID: <35050@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 89 01:14:54 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article  cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes:
>[...]
>[Gassee] also demontrated a hands-off
>mouse - one of those headsets that you wear on your head and use a
>blow switch as the mouse button.  This has been around for a couple
>years, though. [...]

Ah, but Video Keyboard hasn't been around:  it lets you use the mouse
instead of the keyboard in any GS application that supports NDAs.

>Someone from Western Digital (I'm pretty sure it was Bill Mench (sp?)
>asked him why Apple hasn't had more commitment towards faster 65816's.

It was indeed Bill Mensch, and the name of his company is Western Design
Center.

The newsletter you mentioned is called "II Technical".  (I read most of
one issue, and there's certainly some interesting stuff in there, not
counting a couple of gratuitous insults thrown at Apple.)

>GS Rom version 3 isn't as compatible as you think (surprise, surprise)

I tend to look at the situation from the *other* end:  some applications
have trouble running on a ROM 3 system.  In most cases, this is because
the application is doing something it shouldn't have been doing in the
first place, not because of a ROM 3 problem.

(In the case of Nucleus, I don't know what the problem was--I wasn't
involved in any patches to it.)

>[...]  Also, the Apple
>Memory Expansion Card (the one that will work on any {ha} Apple)
>doesn't seem to like the new roms either.  It'll auto-format fine, but
>when you access it, it will mutate and change it's name, as well as
>mutilate the data on it.  This could be a conflict betwixt the GS ram
>plus/rom 3/memory card, because I don't think I tried the card without
>the GS ram Plus in the machine.

The Apple memory expansion card works fine with the ROM 3 machines; this
sounds very much like the 3rd-party card is decoding the address bus
directly and causing a conflict in a certain range of addresses.

>Also, GS/OS 3.0 seems to have a few
>random bugs, although this could be caused by my hard drive. (Old
>datamac, SASI interface).  

"Random" bugs?  Please be more specific.
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