Re: GNO

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <54107270b@ofa123.fidonet.org>, Dan.Kozisek@ofa123.fidonet.org writes...
> 
> Hi. I was wnodering if any of you could give me any and all information on
> this GNO operating system. Specifically, benefits, drawbacks, system
> requirements (actual rather than minimum), etc.

    You should definitely have a hard drive and at least 2 megs of RAM. 
An accelerator is also highly recommended if you want to do any sort of
multitasking.  I'm currently running an 8 MHz ZipGS with 16K, so it
isn't scorchingly fast, but it handles GNO quite well.

    Usually the very first thing I run when my computer boots into
Prosel-16 is GNO.  I can run all my shell-based and desktop-based
programs from GNO.  The only time I ever logout is to run ANSITerm since
it uses ProDOS 8.  Then it's right back into GNO.  Sometimes I don't
even use ANSITerm if all I need is ASCII or VT-100 emulation.  Telcom
and 'copycat' (a great James Brookes product) are my two principal GNO
communication utilities.  I use 'rz' and 'sz' from GNO to upload and
download using ZModem.

    With GNO 1.1, you will be able to "suspend" desktop applications and
return to the shell.  For example, here is the "process list" (the list
of tasks currently running on my GS):

   ID STATE     TT USER       TIME COMMAND
    1 ready     co root     000:00 NullProcess
    2 paused    00 root     000:00 init
    3 wait      00 root     000:00 (/etc/syserr)
    4 wait      00 root     000:00 (/etc/syslog)
   62 suspended 02 taob     000:00 copycat .ttyd2 .ttyco
   63 suspended 02 taob     000:00 cc-modem
    7 paused    co taob     000:05 -gsh
   64 suspended 02 taob     000:00 cc-console
   68 suspended 03 taob     000:02 finder
   70 ready     co taob     000:01 synthfile -p Fugue
   79 waitsigch co taob     000:00 mugs
   80 waitsigch co taob     008:12 emacs @/usr/taob/mugs:mugs.rc
   82 running   co taob     000:00 eps -n -a

    It shows that I am running the command to list the processes ("eps
-n -a") while my mail session ("mugs" and "emacs") are being put on
hold.  I also have the Finder suspended in the background while I'm
writing this message, plus a "copycat" process keeping a line open to
my UNIX account through the modem.  Just to make things interesting,
there is also a synthLAB song playing quietly in the background as I
read my mail and news ("synthfile").  "-gsh" is the command line shell
from which I invoked all these commands.  There are also other
processes that keep track of system usage and errors.  As you can see,
GNO has no difficulty in juggling all these tasks, and it gives me a
chance to show off my process table to other GNO users.  ;-)

    Followups directed to comp.sys.apple2.gno.
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