AWGS 1.1 (was: general ? on 2gs)

[Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl>]

Rubywand wrote:
 
>      Many users have IIgs's which include power-sucking plug-ins. If
> they have not taken the usual steps to eliminate noise on the power
> rails, their machine is virtually certain to have noise glitces which
> can mess up memory, interfer with processing of interrupts, etc.. With a
> large system like AWGS, the odds of hitting messed up memory or having
> an interrupt bomb are greater.

I'm not at all sure. I use AWGS on my real GS and on my emulator on the
Mac, and on both machines AWGS exhibits the same kind of problems.
Therefore I don't think hardware problems such as these could cause
them. Besides, when such a "noise glitch" occurs, wouldn't the machine
respond with a "sliding apple" error?
I really do think it's a software-only problem. Starting up with no
Inits/DAs could be a way to find out if the problems persist.

>      Does the presence of a RamFAST increase the probability of an AWGS
> crash? The answer is probably "Yes". But, then, it would be the same for
> any hard disk interface. Cards like Second Sight and PC Transporter
> should be even worse. Any large complex software system which depends
> heavily upon OS features is going to be more crash-prone as OS-user
> hardware/firmware/software complexity increases.

Hmmm... maybe if we all worked together, we could build a list of what
problems AWGS has on what machines. If we all would write a message with
what hardware and DAs etc we have, and what goes wrong with which module
of AWGS, perhaps we can pinpoint some of the bugs and think of ways to
circumvent them.

Pim Blokland