Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UBVMS.BITNET!V112PDL5 From: V112PDL5@UBVMS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: GS/OS Questions Message-ID: <8809191639.aa00747@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 19 Sep 88 20:33:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 According to press releases GS/OS now supports disk formats other than ProDOS. Okay, which of the following (if any) does it support DOS 3.3, Pascal, Mac HS [D [D [Df [D [D [D [D FS, or MS-DOS. We know it supports some obscure ISO format. Given that Apple is shipping a utility that (paraphrazing) creatstes partitions of differtrent OSs on hard disks, will it work with non-Apple drives? (CMSA260s for instance) And given that, will partitions greater than 32 megabytes be supported? Will ProDOS 8 applications be able to read them or just "AppleShare Aware" programs? Whlhile I'm at it in what ways will system 4.0 increase program speed? Is it merely disk access or have the Tools been revamped again? Does it support disk caching? How fast is the new Finder's interface and why is it faster? Is ProDOS as a name dead? GS/OS is shorter but has an annoying and unsightly slash in it. Reminds me of OS/2. Uggh! -mark