Re: Need GS OS 5.x

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

Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:

> In article <3418D626.D2D19FC4@magna.com.au>,
> Dave Morrison  <deth@magna.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a ROM 3 //gs with one meg of ram, and no HD. While I'm working to
> >> fix this problem (^_^), I'd like to actualy use the sucker now. I've been
> >> told that OS 6.x won't work well on my system, but that's the only thing
> >> I've found at the Apple site or anywhere else. If anyone knows where I can
> >> find a version I can download with my mac, or would be kind enough to send
> >> it to me, I'd be gratefull. Thanks.
> >
> >Dont have 5 but found a couple of originals of version 4.x the other day at
> >work. Let me know if you want to give it a try.
> 
> Hmm, ROM 3s have system 5.0 toolsets in ROM so not sure you'd want to run
> 4.0 on a ROM 3. But then again I got mine to boot system 3.2 and even 1.1
> so maybe it'll work. But then again I only did that for gee-whiz value, sorta
> like booting my Mac Plus with system .94 one time. Might freak it if you
> were to try doing real work like stuff on it.

I read somewhere that the ROM 3 was specially set up to cope with
running System 4.0.  I would expect earlier versions to be unreliable.

The system software is probably OK, but there are bound to be
applications that make assumptions about features in older versions of
the toolsets.  As the ROM 3 contains newer versions of most of the
toolsets, the ROM versions will be used in place of the disk versions on
the older system software, and this may introduce incompatibilities.

(For example, there might be problems with the Standard File toolset on
old system software, which is not in ROM on the ROM 3, running with much
later versions of the Window Manager, Control Manager and Dialog
Manager.)

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