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    26-Oct-90  09:51:38
Sb: #7603-#Atlanta Fest?
Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)


Hi Colin!

Reporting on our booth ...

We displayed five operating production SYSTEM IV machines, one of which was
installed in a tower case to accomodate additional drives.  Three machines were
running a slide show demonstrating the VGA graphics capabilty of the SYSTEM IV.
In addition to a wide variety of pictures, a pc board layout and a schematic
diagram were displayed with amazing detail and clarity.  The reaction by the
attendees to the SYSTEM IV and especially the VGA graphics was very rewarding. 
Many commented that the graphics displayed were the best at the show.

The machine in the tower case was used to demonstrate various application
programs including my Point-of-Sale System written in SCULPTOR.  We were able
to compare how they performed on a VGA monitor vs normal terminals (Wyse 60,
Wyse 30 and a Tandy DT100).

We were showing a public domain 'windows' program from the TOP Munich group in
Germany.  This program not only allows windows on the VGA screen but you can
have windows on terminals hooked up to the serial ports.  And, flipping between
windows was fast - as fast as the terminals could write their screens.  And
when flipping windows on the VGA screen, the rewrite was virtually
instantaneous!

The remaining machine was used to demonstrate an alternate operating system
written by Dan Farnsworth called MONK (an excellent single-user operating
system similar to FLEX but with improvements).  Dan has written some excellent
software and is writing more.  Of special interest is a program that will allow
Color Computer RS-DOS programs to run on the SYSTEM IV.  Dan has more work to
do to finish it.

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