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    23-Oct-90  18:58:14
Sb: #7686-OSK Software
Fm: Frank Hogg 70310,317
To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)

>This sounds like an interesting idea.  Something just >occurred to me, though.
You've been selling QT boxes >and K-bus boxes for a while, and Peripheral
Technology >has been chugging along with ads in *68 Micro Journal* >for some
time, too.  Seems like this would have been as >good an idea some time back as
now.  Did the idea of a >consortium only originate recently?

Dear Jim

Yes it did. Until now all OSK boxes ran with terminals and therefore were
compatible. Now we are entering a new era with windows, GUIs etc. People are
now doing graphics software and without any 'standard'. We could get into
trouble. This is an area where Microware 'should' have done something as a
windows and a GUI are more on the system level. However they have not and it is
up to us to do these things. Also we are now getting CoCo users, some with bad
habits, moving into the 68K arena. Software issues such as terminal support as
well as graphics support are foreign to many. Without guidelines everyone will
go off in different directions and Pandemonium will result.

There are a lot of issues that have to be discussed.

Keep the cards and letters coming.

Frank