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From: -Rich-@cup.portal.com (Richard Sherman Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS and programming standard
Message-ID: <15488@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 Mar 89 06:33:42 GMT
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After all this discussion, I'm amazed that nobody has figured out what
was meant by "polling the drives," under GS/OS with a Unidisk. I *had* my
old unidisk with my system at first. When I used GS/OS, it would check the 
drive every half second or so. I guess that the Unidisk cannot tell if there 
is a disk inserted, so the OS just keeps checking. After several hours of
listening to the drive go on and off, you get a powerful urge to, well, 
disconnect the drive, at least. Counld not apple just put an IMW on the
//e controller card, and let the Apple 3.5" drives be used on the //e? Then
Apple could drop the Unidisk, and save on production and inventory costs.

							Rich

						-Rich-@cup.portal.com