home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!news.bbn.com!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!gnh-cathouse.cts.com!ncp
- From: ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: gs.os.FST?
- Message-ID: <m0mN184-0000wwC@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 14:16:56 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 28
- X-Unparsable-Date: Sun Aug 23 92 at 23:10:49 (EST)
-
- >> Uhhh.. WHERE would you fit all of this new stuff? ProDOS 8 and
- BASIC.SYSTEM barely fit now.. it would seem logical that the code to do this
- new stuff would be bigger than the code to do the current stuff... so how do
- you fit it? <<
-
- I'll assume your talking about the "ProDOS II" I mentioned for the 8-bit
- machines. To be clear, I imagined ProDOS II to be a extended ProDOS with new
- capabilities while keeping compatability with old ProDOS. Where it would fit
- is beyond me. :) I'll give that some thought, but I would think it would be
- housed on a seperate disk, like GS/OS boot disks are now.
-
- If your talking about the "GS/OS FST" then I'd have to say that the HFS FST
- barely fits as it is right now, so a bigger file should be of no surprise to
- anyone I think (if it's 40k, then it's no big deal as HFS is like 36k).
-
- >> Plus, how do you insure existing programs run off of it? The main
- discussion has been about an FST for the GS since programs that will run off
- of a generic ProDOS volume will run off of HFS or whatever else.. Obviously,
- that's an "as a whole" statement, and there are exceptions. (they broke a
- rule) <<
-
- I don't know about this becaI don't know what it is about current stuff that
- doesn't work on HFS as it is now. :)
-
- ---------------------------------------------
- ncp ncp@gnh-cathouse
- ncp@gnh-starport
- ---------------------------------------------
-