Re: Apple IIGS newbie

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

Dean Nehring <lauren@netins.net> wrote:

> Quality computers system 6.0 book chapter1 page 2 
> "System 6 requires a minimum of 1.25 megabytes of ram with ROM 01 (the
> standard configuration plus a 1 megabyte expantion card), or 1.125
> megabytes of ram on ROM 03 (the standard configuration)

[snip]

> 6.0.1 needs the same or less?

The memory requirements for 6.0.1 are exactly the same as 6.0, though I
expect you will have a few kilobytes less free memory due to more
patches being loaded.

Note that you will only be able to load a reasonably simple system with
the minimum RAM.  You should have more than the minimum if you want to
start adding extra drivers, file systems, etc.  In any case, you can't
fit very much onto a standard 800K system disk - you really need a hard
drive to be able to get the most benefit from System 6.0 or 6.0.1.

> i don't know, i have never been able to get it to work on any of my 3 IIgs
> machines.

Why not?  Insufficient memory, unable to get a good copy of the disks,
or some other reason?

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