Article 45980 of comp.sys.cbm: Xref: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca comp.sys.cbm:45980 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!csbruce From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce) Subject: Re: GEOS Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 21:17:03 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ccnga.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!) coyote@wakko.gil.net () writes: >It was masterfully programmed by Craig Bruce, and IMHO is the best thing >to happen for C= users in the last 5+ years. ACE is C= tweeked to it's >finest. Lets hope it's evolutation continues. I read somewere ACE 15 is >due out just before Christmas break... You read it here. >If I may be so forward; my ACE wish list: >Combine the bitmap viewer and ACEterm into a graphic web utility... Web browsing seems to be fairly high on everybody's hype list, but it isn't all that high on my list. We'd need a TCP/UDP/SLIP protocol stack just to make this possible, and this is not all that practical in a unitasking environment where modem I/O and disk I/O cannot happen simultaneously (although a modem with hardware flow control and an internal buffer would help). A plain HTML previewer/print formatter would be more practical. And then see where we can go from there. >a version oriented towards being burnt into an eprom, (InstantACE)... Or maybe "ACE in the hole"? :-) >Maybe Craig will give us a few words on the eventual goals for ACE... My eventual goals include re-organizing the C128 version of ACE so that the kernel is stored on RAM1 and the user programs take up most of RAM0 (about 58K free). There will be no need for "ACE Plus", since I have figured out how to put everything that I want into one package. I also want Unix-style filenames. Also for the C128 version, I want to add custom device drivers which will blow everything else away for accessing 1541s, 1571s, 1581s, FD2000/4000s, RAMLinks, and CMD Hard Drives. Plus custom support for the MS-DOS disk format. The C64 just plain doesn't have enough memory for all of this. Although, I estimate that the SuperCPU-64 should have enough memory for me to do all of this for it. I also want to give the command shell accept more of the sh/csh commands and I want to provide all of the standard Unix commands. And then, I want to make the existing applications more complete and add some new applications for data compression/archiving (ZIP/GZIP), Z-Modem, some sort of a compiler, and other system-type stuff. Keep on Hackin'! -Craig Bruce csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca "If we persisted in this 'eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth' business, then everyone would end up walking around eyeless and toothless." "No, only the bad guys." -- ~Babylon 5