TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (11/22/89)
The reason people refer to GS/OS v 5.0 instead of 3.0 is twofold: a) In most people's minds ALL the software on the system disk except for P8 is regarded as part of the operating system for the GS, even though technically speaking only the file labelled GSOS is GSOS. Are the tools, drivers, CDevs, fonts, etc. part of the GS operating system or aren't they? On any mainframe software of that kind is generally regarded as part of the operating system. b) Probably more importantly, one never ever sees anything that calls itself GSOS v3.0. (I think you can hold some set of keys down when it's booting to get the version number displayed, but I don't remember what it is.) At least when I start P8 I see something that gives a version number 1.8, and I did get my current set of system software from a disk that was labelled 5.0. But you are right, it is more proper to talk about System Disk 5.0 and most of the time that is probably what you do want to talk about unless you are an expert because you never know which piece of software it is that is causing a bug or actually in control of the hardware; I'll bet if you did an instrumentation of the system you'd find that you spent most of the time in the toolbox (and maybe drivers) and very little in GSOS proper; how much in your applicaton would depend on what it was doing.
sysop@pro-generic.cts.COM (Matthew Montano) (11/25/89)
In-Reply-To: message from TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
> But you are right, it is more proper to talk about System Disk 5.0...
Macintosh System Software gods managed to up the version the System file to
the version of the System Software. So System Software 6.0.2 has a version
number of 6.0.2 on the System file.. strange.
To see what versions you are running of GS/OS and it's associated tools,
hold down space bar as you booting.
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