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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.COM (Morgan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: File server for APPLE IIgs system
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Date: 7 Jan 88 21:17:30 GMT
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Len Bliss sez:
> We've been told that CORVUS has a system that may do the job, but that is
> is a bear to use and has the habit of crashing on a regular basis.

I don't think the CORVUS is hard to use.  You press Control-Open-Apple-RESET
(reboot) and then log yourself in (like logging into a BBS), by giving it your
password.  Once done, it boots right up into your filespace.

Pre-Constellation III versions of Corvus' installation programs were just a
pain in the neck to use, from what I understand.  It was slow and ran under
Pascal exclusively.  The new Constellation software runs under ProDOS, is much
faster and easier to work with.

As for crashing, at the present, the Constellation III Corvus software and
interface (transporter) card does NOT like high speed CPU's like the one in
the IIGS, or a IIe with a speed-up card installed.  If you try to access the
Corvus network on a IIGS running at fast speed, it will crash, or just hang.
It's up to Corvus to build a new transporter card which is more like a generic
hard disk interface so that it doesn't care about the computer's CPU speed.
>From an A+ a few issues ago, Corvus is supposedly giving more attention to the
Apple world than ever before after a recent buyout by Control Data.

So, it's probably only a matter of time until they release Constellation IV
which fully supports the IIGS, ProDOS 8 and ProDOS 16, etc.

--Morgan ("Semaphores, semaphores, and more semaphores") Davis

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