Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!aurora!labrea!decwrl!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New IIgs ROMs Message-ID: <7327@reed.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 14:00:54 EDT Article-I.D.: reed.7327 Posted: Fri Sep 25 14:00:54 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 07:45:40 EDT References: <8709240255.AA08230@ecsvax.uucp> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Distribution: world Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 27 In article <8709240255.AA08230@ecsvax.uucp> ranger@ecsvax.UUCP ("Rick N. Fincher") writes: >At Applefest I heard several of the manufacturers say that the new ROMs goofed >up their programs. MD Ideas software for their digitizing card for example. >They say it's Apple's fault (but they probably didn't follow the rules). >They already have an upgrade for it. I was told that Apple is putting disk >cacheing into the new version of Prodos but that won't be out for awhile. > >Rick Well, according to the "programming the //gs" panel, was it David Eyes who said that the incompatability problems were caused by the fact that the toolbox calls were being more strictly inforced now, such as requiring reserved bytes to be zeroed or somesuch, and that a lot oof manufacturers got caught doing it, either knowingly or not. Also note, the GS BASIC interepretter is in a beta version. I found out a lot of neat stuff at Applefest, and I am compiling a long message that tells all about it. I should post it by Sunday. Sean -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@Berkeley.BITNET ARPA: tektronix!reed!kamath@Berkeley reed!kamath@hplabs US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)