Msg: 4823 *Conference*

12-12-93 10:38:26

From: RICHARD HANSON

To : SHELDON JAFFE

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4822 (ROMS)

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Sheldon: A whole lot can be said about each and every ROM.  Each ROM has many
fine features.  Frankly, my suggestion is to buy them all and test their
usefulness over time--but then that's my retailing side talking. (grin)

I made a note to fax you something later this week.  But, to start off, let me
outline the ROMs.  It would be greatly helpful if you presented some
applications of personal interest to you.

ULTIMATE ROM II - an applications ROM
 T-Word - word processing and print output control
 T-Base - fully relational database
 Idea! - thought outliner
 View80 - screen enhansement for 60 chr per line (not on Model 200 ROM)
 TS-DOS (loader) - loads and run the TS-DOS program from disk
 Sardine (loader) - loads and runs the Sardine spell check program from disk

SARDINE ROM
 T-Word - see about
 Sardine - the disk based program on rom
 Dictionary (500 words) - other 33000 words read from disk
 TS-DOS (loader) - see above

TS-DOS ROM - disk operating program for tpdd adn tpdd2 drives

ROM2/CLEUSEAU - programmers rom
 ROM2 - 8085 machine language assembler/disassembler, debugger
 Cleuseau - ads enhansements to basic and text 

MULTIPLAN - spreadsheet by Microsoft

CRDFIL ROM - flatfile database

BUSINESS ANALYST ROM - business calculations

SUPERROM - applicatons ROM (competition to the ulitmate ROM II)
 Write - word processing and print output control
 Lucid - spreadsheet (the best)
 Thought - thought outliner
 Base - flatfile database

LUCID - spreadsheet

Let's expand on this list through discussion... -Rick-