Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: various GS/OS 5.0 Message-ID: <890817060624.026464@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Date: 17 Aug 89 06:06:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 a) WordPerfect 2.1e fixes the problem of not being able to save over an existing file. Presumably other vendor's upgrades/fixes will do the same thing. Musta been a minor toolbox interface change. b) GS/OS is now such a memory hog I'm thinking about adding some more. 1.25 meg ain't enough, I guess. When I do so I'm thinking about getting a battery backed up kind so I can keep my most used stuff in quasi-ROM (that's what I call it.) Question -- is there any way of putting only the most frequently used parts of the system into that RAM/ROM while the rest stays on the hard drive? How would I even know what "most frequently used" is? What stays memory resident between applications? (once you load a tools does it need to be reloaded, for instance?) What, if anything, stays resident when you run P8 and a P8 application? c) In the same spirit, sort of. The original P16 was a shell than ran on top of ProDos8. Will there ever be a P8 that runs as a shell on top of GS/OS rather than as a separate program? What about BASIC.SYSTEM for that matter -- it is a shell/interface between the Microsoft Basic in ROM and P8 -- could it not instead be an interface to GS/OS (which now that I think about it would almost eliminate the need for P8 ... oops, I guess not, you still have to service old 6502 machine language programs that are calling the P8 MLI.) d) is there now under Sysdisk 5.0 (I'm sorry, I dont' know what version of GS/OS it is that is on it) any way of reconfiguring RAM5 without cycling the cpu power? I thought I had figured out how to use the shutdown menu item under 4.0 (although never consistently) but now that's gone. 'nuff for now TMPLee@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil