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- From: jabba@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Richard Charles Graves)
- Subject: Re: Multiple Extension Levels? IDEA
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.071433.4958@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
- References: <1992Sep6.142357.17924@access.digex.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:14:33 GMT
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- Gary Goldburgn writes:
-
- >What we need is a transparent way of designating QuickTime, Tuner, etc as
- >'System-level' extensions, so that when you press the Shift key, these
- >stay in and the others are skipped.
-
- I disagree. I think it would be annoying to be uncertain about what
- extensions are loading, or to have no recourse other than dragging them
- out of the System Folder. We can maybe assume that 'System-level' extensions
- are bug-free, but they do take up memory and maybe processor time, which are
- what I like to save with Extensions Off.
- I think Extensions Manager (now in version 1.7, on ftp.apple.com and
- everywhere else) would give you most of the functionality you want, though
- you have to deal with an interface and a couple keystrokes at startup
- instead of just holding down the shift key. I'd like EM to become "real"
- System Software, not just wannabe system software like its docs and splash
- screen suggest.
-
- A feature addition I WOULD like, sort of relevant, would be the ability to
- specify whether AppleTalk loads at startup without having to restart --
- maybe make it an extension you can manipulate with Extensions Manager. I
- assume this is possible, i.e., that AppleTalk loads pretty late and can be
- interrupted or begun during the INIT-loading stage, because the Tuner
-