Re: SCSI HD IIGS: Question - How to boot both 8-bit and 16-bit software?

[sbeattie@cs.iastate.edu (Shawn T Beattie)]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>Yes.  If you use IIgs System 6.0.1, you can press the '8' key before
>the graphics "boot progress" screen appears, and you will go straight
>into ProDOS-8.  This method will only work on a IIgs - it doesn't allow
>the hard drive to be booted on a IIe.  The first file in the root
>directory with a name ending in ".SYSTEM" will be launched (probably
>BASIC.SYSTEM, unless you have renamed it or added another file first).

Or, if there is no .SYSTEM file, ProDOS will run its own program selector,
as long as you're using ProDOS 8 v1.8 or newer.  This is when Apple
finally got rid of the annoying ENTER NEXT APPLICATION (or whatever) 
prompt.  So, no need for a QUITTER.SYSTEM anymore...