Re: IIgs problems

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

: >I hoped I could jst build a launch disk for the IIgs and have a
: >real system folder on the PowerMac. 

:    Sorry, Apple forced you to pay $$$ for Appleshare 2.x or 3.x in
: order to boot over the network. Unless you can find those programs,
: you'll have to be content with booting on the GS (and fitting your
: system folder into 800K) and possibly using your Mac as a slow "HD"
: via Appleshare.

Man Nathan is completely gung ho on the idea of software publishers getting
"$$$" for their products, all except Apple that is. Or maybe he just expects
every Mac user to have software on their system that perhaps .002% will
want to use.

Apple is responsive to user feedback and uses it to simplify the way things
work by eliminating features which aren't commonly used. Whether this is good 
or bad depends on whether you use the feature in question. Two bad ones I
can name include taking out the AAUI ethernet port on G3 boxes, forcing
everyone to use twisted pair. The other is reducing the access privileges
used in 8.0's file sharing. The see files, see folders, make changes options
are now read only, read/write, write only, and none. You can still use 
Appleshare to get the old fashioned privileges.

Is not supporting network startup on every Mac a good decision? I'd say yes.
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