Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@magrathea.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Tell me: what was System 1.0 like? Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 04:12:10 GMT References: <13942@ur-cc.UUCP> <1515@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1991May10.171628.19512@MDI.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: jackb@MDI.COM's message of 10 May 91 17: 16:28 GMT In article <1991May10.171628.19512@MDI.COM> jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) writes: >Remember the four-swap copy that used screen memory to hold disk data? This >was a tremendous relief for the swap-weary. It went away when the 512K Macs >came out. Oh the reason for all the swaps? The Mac came out in late January, >and the external drive in May/June. Most of us got our drives about August >or so. That, of course, meant copying disk using only ONE drive. Can't compare to running the Installer (for Sys6.0.5) on 1 drive: the damned thing copies 1 resource at a time. I didn't know this before I started. It took about 90 minutes and about a million swaps. I've been assured that the Sys7 Installer doesn't do this. :-) -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9? | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | --Ultimate Question | \============================================================================/