Re: System 5.04 dead?

[nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <1993Apr26.140118.42833@urz.unibas.ch> hochstrasse@urz.unibas.ch
writes:
>I just got my copy of 'Programmer's System 6 Reference' and it's
>really a neat thing! Therefore I decided to use any System 6 call
>where appropriate in my CHEMIX project, making it incompatible
>with System 5.04. (I think, it doesn't pay to write special case
>code).
>Although the decision is made now, I wonder whether there is
>still anybody using System 5.04 (or earlier), and why.

OK, I admit it.  I'm still using 5.0.2.  I have a copy of 6.0, but I don't
use it very often, because I can't afford a hard drive, and I can't make
6.0 fit on an 800K floppy unless I strip it down to the bare bones.
(That's why someday Real Soon Now(tm) I'm going to write an init that moves
some of the tools to another disk.)

BTW...if anybody out there has a ProFile hard drive interface for the IIGS
for sale, you could spare me the trouble of writing that init.  I have
somebody who's offered to give me a ProFile hard drive for free, but
there's no interface card for it.  Someone else offered to send me an old
Apple //e version of the interface, but I don't think I have any way to
upgrade it to a IIGS-compatible version.

               - Neil Parker
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