Re: Echoes and Appleshare questions

[mikeford@socal.rr.com (Mike Ford)]

> > I have AppleShare 2 and 3, but haven't gotten around to doing an install
> > and playing with either. How wonderfull is it to have a IIgs netted to a
> > Appleshare 3 server?
>  ....
> 
>      Had the IIgs been fully supported by Apple after its introduction, there
> would have been more rapid speed and RAM upgrades together with better
> integration of networking hardware in GS System. As things stand, the IIgs is
> a much more stable system when running as a 'stand alone' computer with all
> networking support drivers, INITs, FSTs, etc. removed.

Thats sad, I used to be hip deep in the Apple II writing ASM, but I never
worked on the IIgs moving to the Mac and C instead.

Maybe this is a very basic question, but on the Apple II most of the time
I assumed the running program pretty much took over the whole machine,
does this change a lot going to the IIgs? I was hoping to replace local
storage on the IIgs with a network server connection, is it possible to
boot the IIgs, get something from the server, than reboot to run what you
got in a bare (no inits, few something) environment?