Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hodge!pnet06!thecloud From: thecloud@pnet06.cts.com (Ken Mcleod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Missing PACKs Message-ID: <240@hodge.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 88 08:47:11 GMT Sender: rusty@hodge.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet06], Orange, CA Lines: 55 dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes: > Well since posting this some very nice people have responded and informed >me that System 6.0's sound Manger uses the additional Parameter RAM on the >Plus for some reason. I don't think this can be the problem, and I'll tell you why: I have a 512K Mac upgraded with the Dove 2 meg board (and the Dove SCSI port). I don't have the extra PRAM that a Plus does. Yet System 6.0 runs just beautifully on my machine!!!!!!! I don't use the Sound cdev for beep sounds, though, as I like CheapBeep and SoundMaster's options. But applications which use the Sound Manager seem to work fine (Larry Resenstein's "Time Keeper" with its hourly chimes, for one). Can anyone be more specific as to how/if the "extra" PRAM is used???? Have I just been narrowly avoiding danger up til now? I installed System 6.0 on my Jasmine 20 by booting from the 6.0 floppy, then trashing all system files and cdevs on the hard disk, and running the installer with the "full MacPlus" script. In case this makes any difference. With my hardware configuration and System 6.0/Finder 6.1/MF 6.0, I have had NO problems with MS Word or Excel, MacWrite, MacPaint, Red Ryder, Microphone 1.1, Termworks 1.3, MPW 2.0.2, HyperCard 1.2.1, SuperPaint 1.1, and others... in fact, the only trouble I had initially was with some cdevs that relied on PACK 7 being in the System. According to the 6.0 Change History documentation I have (dated May 2nd) *no* changes were made to either the SCSI Manager or the serial driver. Here is a list of resources that were REMOVED from the System: PACK ID=4 SANE, floating point package PACK ID=5 SANE, elementary math functions PACK ID=7 SANE, various conversion routines WDEF ID=0 Window definition procedure DRVR ID=9 AppleTalk protocol package handler DRVR ID=10 AppleTalk transaction protocol handler These are now in all ROMs, 128K and greater. There have been so many posts by people having problems with 6.0 that I'm running a little worried, waiting for something to crash. It would be great if someone "in the know" could tell us exactly what 'extra' hardware 6.0 needs that 5.0 didn't...if indeed it does. On the other hand, is it possible that a glitch crept into some of the distribution disks and not others? I have heard from several people who received their 4 disks, and 2 of them were *identical*, right down to the volume name. Is it still too early, or has anyone compiled a 6.0 bug list? Disclaimer: This may be all hearsay. I may not really be Dan Rather. Ken McLeod ========================= ....... ====================== UUCP: {crash uunet}!pnet06!thecloud :. .: Chief Weapons of UNIX: ARPA: crash!pnet06!thecloud@nosc.mil :::.. ..::: "Fear, surprise, and INET: thecloud@pnet06.cts.com //// ruthless efficiency."