Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!wuarchive!uunet!unsvax!uns-helios.nevada.edu From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (Scott Alfter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: clocks Message-ID: <2301@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> Date: 15 Nov 90 01:36:46 GMT References: <5534@crash.cts.com> <109@braille.uwo.ca> <2276@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> <112@braille.uwo.ca> Sender: news@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU Organization: Univ of Nevada System Computing Services - Las Vegas Lines: 35 In article <112@braille.uwo.ca> bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss) writes: >Scott is indeed right. If you are one of those people that just have to >have the latest version of ProDOS (even if you don't have a IIfs and can't >make use of the "improvements" (which are questionable)), then you should >not get a No Slot Clock. What's a "IIfs?" Did Apple come out with a new II and only you heard about it? :-) Seriously, though, I don't have a IIGS, and the improvements in ProDOS 8 v1.9 won't show up on a GS unless you use ProDOS 8 exclusively and never bother with GS/OS. The single most important (IMHO) feature of the new version is the program selector, made with the IIe and IIc user in mind. GS users will probably never see this because they use the Finder for everything. >On the other hand, if you are happy with the version of ProDOS that you >are using what the hec? Remember ProDOS 8 v1.3? I never had it happen to me, but there was a small bug that liked to trash disks if you ran that version on a II Plus or original IIe. (The "bug" was the use of a 65C02 opcode; version 1.4 fixed this.) There are other obscure bugs that pop up from time to time as well. Wouldn't you feel safer with the knowledge that a newer version of system software probably has fewer bugs that could rear their ugly faces? I would. (Even though I've never seen an Apple II crash as a result of a bug in ProDOS 8, which is more than you can say for other computers and their system software--why does the name "Macintosh" come to mind here? :-) ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Alfter _/_ / v \ Apple II: Internet: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu ( ( the power to be your best! GEnie: S.ALFTER \_^_/