Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!orstcs!jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU!throoph
From: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: System 5.0
Message-ID: <12101@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 14 Aug 89 21:12:19 GMT
Reply-To: throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Henry Throop)
Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon
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A couple of comments/questions on System 5.0 -

1. First of all, thanks for getting out ahead of schedule, etc.  The speed
improvement (on program that don't crash :-) is great.

2. After I format a RAM disk from the Finder and verify it, I get a message
saying I have 97 bad blocks.  Doing the same thing from System 4.0 tells me
 I have 48 bad blocks.  In either case, it gets formatted as 512K, which seems
interesting, seeing that I only have 768K on my machine total, 512K of which
Finder/System is already using.  I'm sure my RAM is OK; my memory test programs
verify this, and I've had no problems that would suggest it.  

3. Any reason there are no horizontal scroll bars on the 'View by...' windows,
like there are in previous Finders?  

4. Someone on here mentioned problems with ProTERM v2.1 displaying lots of
garbage on the screen when launched from 5.0.  Seemed to work fine for me;
I've got an external 2400 going through the modem port.

5. Any reason why the green 'fireworks' that appeared when you selected 
'About the Finder' on a beta version I saw are gone in the release version? :-)

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Henry Throop
Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu