#: 15045 S1/General Interest
    23-Apr-92  17:07:30
Sb: #15044-#Lonnie editorial
Fm: Ches Looney 73016,1336
To: Wayne Day 76703,376

Wayne - It's now in your hands, pointed toward dl14.  I happen to agree with
Lonnie's editorial and said some of the same things to colleagues in the past. 
This forum and the CoCo forum are not as busy as they once were for at least
two reasons.  The CoCo has matured and it is no longer as much of a mystery in
trying to get OS9 to work or to word process or communicate.  But there has
also been much attention focussed on the new development and that has sapped
the strength of some of our favorite Gurus so that new things for OS9 (where is
that new upgrade, anyway?) have been somewhat comatose.  To paraphrase Lonnie's
editorial, if you're looking for power computing (like the PC486 with Windows,
DOS 5 and the works), there seems little likelihood that comparable software
for the 68000 CoCo-like machines will be developed (the market demand just
isn't there), so if power is your need, look to the PC486 line.  If your needs
are like many of us (me for example), a good word processor, communicator, MIDI
music player, effective multiprocessing, but you have time to smell the roses
while the disk spins, stick with the good old 6809 CoCo.  Maybe some of our
favorite Gurus would even have time to finish up or somehow make that new OS9
upgrade available and bump up the forum action for a while. Regards to all -
Ches.

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