Re: apple 2 gs boot disk

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Pim Blokland <pblokland@planet.nl> wrote:

> It does mean I received an incomplete version of GS/OS in 1993; remind me
> to get angry at my dealer, next time I see him.

No it doesn't.  The normal retail pack didn't include this disk.  The
developer edition might have, and the disk was available on request from
dealers and/or by direct download from Apple.

> > If you aren't running an AppleShare 3.0 server, you don't need this
> > disk.
> 
> On the Mac side, I don't have anything called "AppleShare". Do you mean
> "File Sharing"?

No.  AppleShare is an application which runs on the Mac, which provides
file and printer sharing, with more extensive features than System 7's
"File Sharing" facility.

AppleShare versions prior to 3.0 only run on System 6.0.8 or earlier,
and take over the whole machine.  AppleShare 3.0 required System 7.0 or
later, and was able to share the machine with other applications.

Later versions dropped the Apple II booting support, and more recently
have added support for TCP/IP services (E-Mail, web, etc.) and running
the AppleShare protocol over IP, which is faster than running it over
the AppleTalk protocol stack.

File Sharing (introduced in System 7.0) is a crippled version of
AppleShare.  The main features you gain with the full application (as at
version 3) included the following, compared to file sharing:

- More than ten users logged in at once.
- Better performance (and possibly less impact on the host machine).
- Print server (may have been an optional extra).
- More powerful administration and security support.

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David Empson
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