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From: cs472226@umbc5.umbc.edu (David Wood (CS472226))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GSOS
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Date: 23 May 89 12:16:28 GMT
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In article <8905220016.AA08754@crash.cts.com>,
   pnet01!pro-avalon!pro-nebulous!jim@nosc.mil writes:
>Why is it necissary for the GS to load Desk accessories into memory?  Not only
>does this slow down the boot process dramatically but it also takse up
>valuable memory.  I have a meg and a quarter like most everyone and had been
>able to find things I couldn't do because of memory limitations when I had one
>DA.  Now I have about 5 and it is a major cutback on available memory.  
>
>This just seems to be an idiotic waste.  Can anyone come up with a logical
>reason why the DA's can't be loaded only when they are needed and one at a
>time?????

   You must have quite a collection of desk accessories. Have you
considered donating copies to the Smithsonian?
   Anyway, the point of a desk accessory as I see it is to have a
utility or small program in memory so you can start it up as soon as you
need it, without having to swap in disks or wait for the sucka to load.
If loading time and memory are such problems, you should consider what
accessories you have on there now. Do you REALLY need that cute little
accessory that draws the contents of a window upside-down and backwards,
or that one that reads the outside temperature? Put your disk on a DA
diet, and in no time, it'll be fit, trim, and kickstarting right into
the Finder.
   On the other hand, if there's a whole bunch on there that you just
can't live with, then there is a DA called "Acc.Chooser" which will load
your choice of either Classic or New DAs on command. It sounds like you
need something like that. I'm sure someone on PROLine knows about it;
ask around.

   And speaking of PROLine... Is source available for it? I'm
considering writing for Steve Jackson Games, and they require their
material in (ecch) IBM-compatible format. While I'm word munching on the
IBM, I could use the GS as a BBS. However, I'd want to customize it;
nobody in the local area (Baltimore) is on PROLine that I know of... 

                                                    -David Wood
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