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From: Les_Ferch.@MTSG.UBC.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: P8/GSOS Switching
Message-ID: <1967210@mtsg.ubc.ca>
Date: 19 Dec 89 22:04:04 GMT
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>If you want to use AppleTalk from your IIgs, you have to boot into GS/OS.
>That's all we guarantee that will work and that was all that was tested.
 
It's not very good PR to tell us that using ATINIT with ProDOS 8 on
a GS is not supported and that we "have to boot into GS/OS", when it
certainly does work (at least on a ROM 01 GS).  On a GS that only
has one 3.5" drive or even just a 5.25" drive and 256K or 512K
memory, this is the *only* practical way to print from classic
AppleWorks (or any other ProDOS 8 program) to an appletalk connected
LaserWriter.  Why Apple refuses to support or reccommend a solution
to people that works fine I don't know.  Perhaps it's just another
way to make uninformed users buy more hardware than they really
need.  The irony is, that I learned of this technique from somebody
at Apple!