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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Subject: various GS/OS 5.0
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Date: 17 Aug 89 06:06:00 GMT
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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