Re: Autoloader for GSOS

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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951208095440.29938B-100000@moose>, Paul Schultz
<pschultz@med.wayne.edu> writes:


>> Joseph Turner <jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > 
> >    Hello, I use System 5.04 on my IIgs and at the moment I have only
one 
> > 3,5 drive. Now I have 4megs of Ram and I would like to pre-load the 
> > system into ram and then boot from the ram. I was wondering if there
is 
> > anyone who could give me a few hints.
>> 
>
>On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, David Empson wrote:
>>
>I may be mistaken but I thought Quality Computer used to sell a
>program called 'RAM-UP' or something along that line which would
>do exactly what you want. Give them a call. I don't think it was
>very expensive either. ...

   Yes. With Jerry Kindall's "Flash Boot" you can 'create' a special
diskette or diskettes that will automatically load the system you want
into RAMdisk.  At startup you can specify whether future boots during the
session will come from RAMdisk or the usual Slot.

   I used Flash Boot to run a decent size System 6.0.1 for a few months.
It's a fine utility which, in a perverse way, ends up un-selling itself.
The user becomes so 'spoiled' by rapid system response and so intolerant
of slow diskette accesses that he/she soon moves up to a hard disk.