Real Soon Now

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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 20:21:08 EDT
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From: David.Anderson@CMU-CS-G
The local apple people hosted a user's group meeting here, and gave out some
updated guesses on software releases. Here's what I copied down:

MacTerm August
Editor&ASM August
FileVision August
Helix August
MacPascal August-Sept
level 2 Forth Sept
MacDraw October
MacProject October
Word October
Logo October ;from the "Original Computer Camp"?
MacBasic November
Lisp Dec ;Original Computer Camp again
full Pascal Dec-Jan

I played with both the Tecmar and Davong winnies, and the Davong seems
much faster. The Tecmar didn't seem any faster than a floppy (though it
hopefully is), while the Davong was really nice. MacWrite and MacPaint
launched in a few seconds. Both connect via Applebus through the modem
connector, and I believe both have another Applebus connector on the back.

There seems to be quite a lot of development underway. Several database
packages were mentioned, including a couple of graphically oriented systems
that are claimed to be truly wonderful (FileVision and Helix). Several
terminal emulators and file transfer utilities are being worked on, and
Haba is planning a whole series of desk accessories. Daisy-wheel printers, a
video-digitizer, an Epson interface, and 3rd party micro-floppy drives were
all mentioned.

The editor/assembler package is what you'd expect. It seemed
straightforward and reasonably complete. Helix has an interesting graphical
programming environment, but it wasn't intuitive enough that we could get it
to actually do anything in 5 minutes. MacDraw is just like LisaDraw, and I
can't wait.