Re: What OS should I use for an Apple //gs??

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <3001tp$jnc@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>,
Dylan Bulseco <bulsecod@ava.bcc.orst.edu> wrote:
>I am new to all of this...and am not sure what OS I should look use for my
>//gs.  It is not clear to me the relationship of GS/OS (ie: I have install
>disk for 6.0.1) and ProDos.  Are these mutually exclusive?  If I run things

	No they are not mutually exclusive.  ProDOS is _one of_ the file
systems that GS/OS supports, through the File System Translator (FST) mechanism
in the OS.  Others supported are HFS (read/write), DOS 3.3 (read only), 
Pascal (read only), MSDOS (read only), AppleShare (read/write), and possibly 
a few I left off.

>from the GS/OS GUI, will all of the programs currenly on boot disks (with
>ProDos) be accessible?  I don't have one yet, but I intend to get a small SCSI

	Yes, if you have the ProDOS FST installed, which you obviously will 
have, since you booted off of a ProDOS based disk.  (ProDOS is the only one
you can boot from)

	If your 'boot disks' are actually full-disk copy protected programs,
then no, they will not be accessible, since none of the FSTs can read them.
You may be able to use something like the shareware program DOS 3.3 Launcher to
allow you to use at least _some_ of your disks from a hard drive, and you can
then double-click on them from the Finder.
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