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From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: CMS60 drives
Message-ID: <2998@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 89 13:12:31 GMT
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Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <8906231416.AA27057@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-beagle!mmunz@nosc.mil writes:
>Network Comment: to #8953 by pnet01!crash!apple.com!mattd
>
> Of course, the thermometer when starting up GS/OS isn't accurate anyway.
> Depending on what's on the disk, the startup can be done when the thermometer
> is only half-way done, or it continues on even after the thermometer fills..
> and we're talking several seconds (10 or more).

The thermometer appears to be accurate to me when GS/OS is loading the startup
s16 file.  However, when the s16 file starts loading its tools and its own
files, the thermometer goes away and you're stuck staring at the white screen.
Maybe its different for hard drives.  I don't have one yet :~(

> That, along with the time it takes to load (even on my harddrive) keep me
> from using it on a regular basis.  Now if the OS would be built-into the
> ROMs.. then there might be hope.

It has been said that the SCSI driver on System Disk 5.0 will be six times
faster than the current driver.  Yow!  The sages murmur that AppleWorks GS
will load in 15 seconds!

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