EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto) (01/08/91)
Apparently no one who responded got my question. In the GEOS 1.3 manual, it st ates: Thr REU comes bundled with a special version of the GEOS KERNAL and a sp ecial deskTop designed to take advantage of the additional RAM. It is this that I need.
an207@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David DeSimone) (01/08/91)
In a previous article, EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto) writes: >Apparently no one who responded got my question. In the GEOS 1.3 manual, >it states: The REU comes bundled with a special version of the GEOS >KERNAL and a special deskTop designed to take advantage of the additional RAM. I'm sure I have that disk lying around here somewhere, but I abandonded GEOS 1.3 completely when I moved up to 2.0. Things just seems to work better under 2.0, and the newest desktop is a wonder to use. With the 1.3 upgradge, you get a RAMdisk driver, so that you can use a RAMdisk under GEOS. This helps quite a bit. However, 1.3 still only recognizes 1541 drives. With 2.0 you can use a 1541, 1571, or 1581. If you have a 512K REU, the best you can do under 1.3 is to have one drive as a 1541 (shadowed, meaning it uses the REU as a very fast disk cache) and a RAM 1541. GEOS 1.3 does not recognize more than two drives, so if you have two drives, you must either turn one off, or forget about the RAM disk and just shadow both drives. GEOS 2.0 will give you a RAM 1571 with a 512K REU. The deskTop is friendlier and gives you more keyboard shortcuts, and it works in color on a 40 column screen. You can select multiple files and copy them in batches, instead of one at a time. Basically, if you have an REU and you're not using 2.0, you should get it. In fact, even if you don't have an REU, you should be using 2.0. -- begin 644 .signature G5&AI<R!S<&%C92!I;G1E;G1I;VYA;&QY(&QE9G0@8FQA;FLN#0H: end
rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) (01/08/91)
EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto) writes: >Apparently no one who responded got my question. In the GEOS 1.3 manual, it >states: Thr REU comes bundled with a special version of the GEOS KERNAL and a >special deskTop designed to take advantage of the additional RAM. Bizarre... my 1750 didn't come with this. At any rate, GEOS 2.0 includes anything that this bundled disk would include, so if you upgrade to 2.0 you won't need anything else. As to 1.3, I am not sure. Did anyone else get this disk with their 1750? -Rob rknop@gap.cco.caltech.edu