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From: jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (Jack Fine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: //GS questions, comments...
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 10:39:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 10:39:35 1987
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Let me preface this with a comment that even though I have used many
different computers (micros and up) I do not have much apple experience and
am finding the new //gs I have considerably different from much of what I
am used to.  I keep running into things I don't understand and then find I
can't locate information about it in the reference books that came with the
machine.  Which brings me to my first question:

1.  When I hit a certain series of keys it drops me into an assembler
monitor.  How do I go about learning what commands the monitor
understands? I have done some experimenting but this is rough at best.
Would like a good reference source.  A good tech manual would be nice.
Does anyone know how to get one?  The same is true for Applesoft(is this
basic really as weak and archaic as it appears?) as well.  Speaking of
programming, what is the best language to get for the //gs?  I like pascal
basic is okay and have been trying to learn C.  But which ever I get I
would want it to be able to compile.  Of course it should take advantage of
the newer //gs features.

2. I just installed a AE gsram card and have a question or two about this.
First, I have found that when I installed a ramdisk the ramdisk became slot
5-2.  I have two 3.5 inch drives and they were 5-1 and 5-2.  Now my second
3.5 inch drive is 2-1.  Why would it do that?  I have had the Ramdisk lock
up on me a couple of times when I was playing around with dos and putting
files in the ramdisk.  Not sure why that is happening.  And last, when I
copied all of the dos files to ramdisk set the control panel to start from
the ramdisk then reset the machine it came up saying error with startup
device.  Can't you run dos from ramdisk?

Thanks for any info..

Jack