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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
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Subject: why Finder replaced Desktop; large HDs
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Date: 16 Mar 89 14:03:00 GMT
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>Date:         Thu, 16 Mar 89 00:17:33 GMT
>From:         Kareth <mentor.cc.purdue.edu!asd@PURDUE.EDU>
>Subject:      IIgs and flakey-ware
>
>2) Why in the world did you guys at Apple dump the Desktop (found on
>the earlier system.disks)?  I still have this in a ROMdrive that I
>use when I want semi-ProSel speed with a Desktop interface.  [...]

Ick!  That thing runs under ProDOS 8, meaning (among other things)
that actual disk access is much slower than under GS/OS, that it is
forever limited to ProDOS disks, and that New Desk Accessories cannot
be used with it.  As I recall, it didn't remember where you had put
icons within your windows, either, and you already mentioned the
lack of color.  Its Get Info boxes were extremely boring, and they
were modal.  I never used the thing enough to know the rest of its
limitations.

If it still works for you, nobody's stopping you from using it. It's
not the way of the future, though.  I expect that the real Finder's
speed and functionality will continue to improve in the future.

>3) To Keith or any Apple-dude or dudette:  If or rather When, Apple
>comes out with a true GS/OS, will the current Apple SCSI card handle
>it? For example, I am currently on my way to purchasing a VERY large
>200-300+Meg drive [...] Anyways, I'll be over the 7-32Meg partitions
>for one SCSI card, and would like to know, if a real GS/OS fst will
>work correctly with Apple's SCSI card.  I would presume so, but ya
>never know.

EH?  GS/OS is perfectly "true" right now.  Partitions are not limited
to 32 Megs except under ProDOS.  If and when FSTs are available for
non-ProDOS file systems (other than High Sierra, which intended for
compact disks and is read-only), there is no reason to doubt that
the current SCSI card will be able to handle them.  It requires a
loaded driver (SCSI.DRIVER) anyway, so I don't forsee any problems.

By the way, the ProDOS FST (PRO.FST) _is_ a "real GS/OS FST."  All
FSTs impose file-system-specific limitations on things like volume
size, file size, valid characters in filenames, maximum length of
filenames, etc.

>kareth.

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