Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpindda!tribby From: tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Comments on GS/OS Message-ID: <6230017@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 27 Sep 88 17:09:39 GMT Organization: HP Information Networks Group/Cupertino CA Lines: 36 A few observations after working with OS/GS for a couple of evenings... Booting up is much faster for 3.5 inch disks. On my system, it took 73 seconds to go from power-up to the Finder on ProDOS 16; it only took 40 seconds for GS/OS. There is not much difference between ProDOS 16 and GS/OS when booting from the Sider hard disk. Apple dropped several programs from the system disk: the Launcher, System Utilities (e.g. copying files from Pascal) and Fast Copy. The old versions still work under GS/OS. The APDA documentation doesn't describe the Advanced Disk Utility. It doesn't look like it does much for me because I can format 3.5 and 5.25 floppies from the Finder, and it doesn't recognize my Sider for partitioning. I am *real* curious about one aspect: what is the difference between formatting a 3.5 disk as "800K 2:1" and "800K 4:1"? The Finder no longer has a "Quit" entry in the "Files" menu. Instead, look for it under "Special." When I tried erasing a write protected disk, the "Try Again" did not work...I had to enter the command again. I loaded a file into the clipboard (via another program) and tried to look at it with "Show Clipboard." The first part of the file came out fine, but scrolling does not work. (The last line was duplicated rather than adding new text during a scroll-down.) Some of the additions to the Finder not only are useful...they look good too! The Finder comes as START in the SYSTEM folder; change the name if you don't want it to be the startup program. The Installer makes for a very smooth update process...if you have two drives. (Quite a bit of disk swapping if you depend upon only one!) I waited on the Installer (once) because it does not get rid of the "clock" cursor when it was done with its task. --Dave Tribby - - - - - ARPA: tribby%hpda@hplabs.HP.COM UUCP: hplabs!hpda!tribby