Re: Disassembling an FST...

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Tai (tai@urd.spidernet.to) wrote:
: While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> scrawled:
: >My feeling is that HFS should replace ProDOS-FS and there should be
: >DOS-FS for compatability.  However, only a few people have
: >superdrives, so that is less important to me (esp. since I can use
: >localtalk to pass files back and forth).

: 	Personally, I would have no problems booting off a prodos partition,
: and having the rest of my apps, data, etc, whatnot all residing on one
: HFS+ partition.
: 	Booting off a prodos partition is not really that horrible, is it?

	Not only that, but it'll probably be the fastests file system the
Apple IIgs will have.  Just look at how slow HFS and MS-DOS are...HFS is
nice because of the bigger drive sizes and the longer filenames.  It's a
tradeoff I guess.  I still believe HFS+ is overkill for the GS...
	Too bad we just couldn't get the MS-DOS.FST finished (with write)
and maybe find a way to speed up the HFS one a little bit.  I'd be content
with that.

: >I suggest there should be a consortium to update GS/OS using System
: >6.0.1 as a base.  I have been trying to collect the relevant material
: >(but for a hobby this is getting expensive), but not quite there.

	Yeah, it'd be nice if we could get some people to organize and
actually do it.  It'd be nice to get Apple's blessings as well.  Perhaps
the programmers could be reimbursed ($$$) for their noble efforts.  I'd be
willing to pay $40 or so for an upgrade (that's how much I paid for System
6.0 and 6.01 each many years back).

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