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From: DICKSON@HARTFORD.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Just got GS/OS
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Date: 2 Aug 89 20:57:00 GMT
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First time in ages I post to this list...

I got System 5.0 today, and I must say I love the new speed on the finder, and
the new scrolling on long pull-down menus.  That's about all I had time to test
before going to work, but while installing it on my hard disk I noticed a
couple problems.

First, an old one that hasn't been fixed.  When I booted with System 5.0, the
finder appeared, but my two hard disk volumes did not.  After a few tries, I
found that by entering basic.system and setting the prefix to those volumes,
then BYEing back to the finder, I could get them to appear.  But that shouldn't
be necessary.  I've got a Sider 20 in slot 7.

Later, and this is a new problem, I found that certain icon files cause the
system to crash when it tries to use them.  I'm not sure which ones yet, but
will post again when I am.  Anybody else had this problem?  Any ideas about it?

Let's see....windows open and close nice and fast, but when I scroll a window
that I'm viewing by name, it still crawls along at a snail's pace.  Also, I
couldn't see much difference in MultiScribe GS screen activity speed.  Perhaps
when I've used it a bit more, though, I'll notice some differences.  The large
number of fonts I now have available is a great improvement...

I heard rumor that I could get new software from FCP to make my hard drive boot
nice and fast with System 5.0.  Is this true?  If so, maybe I can dump all
those dormant NDAs back onto my system disk :)

                                                        William R. Dickson

                                                        DICKSON@HARTFORD.BITNET