Re: Any other wimpy mac users old enough...
John Cook
> On Dec 19, 6:34 pm, John Cook<FunCoTech@Yahoodotcom> wrote:
>> Any other wimpy mac users old enough to remember running 'Switcher' (by
>> Andy Hertzfeld?)
>>
>> Must have been the First time a 'personal computer' had run multiple
>> applications simultaneously - 'switching' from paint to draw to word
>> processor - copying and pasting from anything to anything.
>>
>> I was rich so I had a 'Fat Mac'� - 512K ram 2 X 400k cassette/floppy
>> disk drives
>>
>> With Switcher I could the system (3.2 was good'n) Switcher and three
>> main apps
>> It wasn't 'official' apple software it was just sort of a leak of Andy's
>> work there.
>>
>> It was Magic
>> --
>> John Cook
>>
>> Reality is not Democratic
>
> I recall having the operating system and the application together on
> the same 800k floppy disc.
> (with room left over) Matter of fact, I am looking at a box full of
> said floppies as I type.
I've noticed that every time I go through a general update I can fit the
whole last system and files in a folder in the corner of the new hard
disk. I have too much chaos in my life to have a record like that but
kinda wish I had.
--
John Cook
Reality is not Democratic
iDRMRSR the Reclined Mastar
But here's one stoary.
Lonesam Cowboy Dave brought his Windows 3.1 PC to me once a coupal years ago
to fix. Symptom was, it wouldn't boot.
I looked at the hard drive. One gig. The WINDOWS foldar, the whole fucking
thing, was like 35 MEG.
I panicked and thought he wiped the WHOLE OPERATING SYSTAM AWAY SOMEHOW.
But then some nerve cell which had lain dormant for years fired and reminded
me, at one time THAT'S ALL THERE WAS OF WINDOWS! Indeed, it was all there
and all he needed was somebody to restore the file that had the WIN command
in it to start Windoze after DOS booted.
And someone around here DARED questian why Windows 7 needs 780MEG of memory
just to get to an idal state.
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John Cook
Legend has it that some of the early mac genii would do some bits of the
os directly in machine code to squeeze a bit more speed or ram space.
The amazing thing was that within what they did they were quite snappy -
the waiting for the 'pooter time doesn't change that much...