Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS Message-ID: <34035@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 01:00:07 GMT References:Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 52 In article bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) writes: >Huh? Are you saying that it is 1024K plus 128k? Now, how does the sound >RAM come into this? Yup, 1024K of fast RAM, and 128K of slow RAM (banks $E0 and $E1). This does not include the 64K sound RAM, which is still there. >( a side question: Is 1MB=1024K or is 1MB=1000K? I always thought of it as >the former.) A Meg is 1024K, if you ask me or any other reasonable person. :-) >OK, when somebody finds out specifically is new in the ROM, I WANNA KNOW! >(Thanks) There will be a fairly detailed Technical Note on this in September. Additional toolsets now in ROM: Window Mgr, Menu Mgr, Control Mgr, Line Edit, Dialog Mgr, Scrap Mgr, Font Mgr, List Mgr. There are various changes/improvements to the Control Panel CDA and Monitor. (That's not nearly everything--just the highlights.) >Specific slots must no longer be dedicated to specific uses, >so there are effectively more slots available for custom >configurations. >" >Important Question: Is that only under GS/OS 3.0, or is that implemented >at power on, and therefore in ProDOS 8? You can now set slot 1 or 2 to AppleTalk and have slot 7 free for your own card. (Previously AppleTalk was limited to slot 7, but it still messed up screen holes for slot 1 or slot 2, effectively taking 2 slots.) Slot 4 no longer needs to be switched in for the Event Manager or the Miscellaneous Tools to use the mouse. For P8 applications that make slot-based mouse calls, you still need slot 4 set to Mouse. (Not all P8 applications necessarily do that, but most probably do.) >What, specifically, is the 10% functionality that we miss out on? [...] I'm not sure what the press release was referring to there, but it sounds like the advantage you get by running tools (especially QuickDraw II) from ROM rather than RAM. (Running from ROM, the system doesn't have to pause for 10% of the time to let the hardware refresh some RAM.) --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.