eirikur@amber.DEC (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) (04/08/86)
Wow! I de-quichified a System 3.1.1 on one of my disks. Benchmarked by eyeball, lots of things go a lot faster! Particularly the boot process. (Perhaps in part due to reduced System file size?) Clearly not loading a lot of this old stuff is a big win. I even ran some games, and noticed no problems, though I am sufficiently concerned about the warnings that I won't put this on any of my working disks. I'd like to hear a more detailed explanation of what's going on. I would like to make this my normal system file--unless it may cause future disasters. My current thinking is that if it works with my applications, and it doesn't crash, then it is probably ok. Many thanks to Darin Adler for posting this, even if it's an early version. Are there, in fact, additional features that could be enabled in a similar manner? I did seem to see some font scaling, even though the source indicates that this will be disabled. I had gone too far, and removed Geneva-9 from my system file, and something was scaled to take its place in the names under icons. What does turning off font scaling do for you? I don't like the ugly appearance. Great stuff! Eirikur Hallgrimsson DEC High Performance WorkSystems Marlborough, MA ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!eirikur
mlr0@bunny.UUCP (Martin Resnick) (04/12/86)
> Wow! I de-quichified a System 3.1.1 on one of my disks. What does it mean to de-quichify a System file? > ... > ... > Many thanks to Darin Adler for posting this, even if it's an early > version. What posting are you referring to here?