Subject: Re: macOS question.
To: Raymond Canfield <rcanfiel@cst.digex.net>
From: Mitch Haile <mhaile@jeffco.k12.co.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/06/1996 13:02:27
Create a boot disk with System 6.0.7 or 8 on it, and try to boot; the 
machine will ask if you want to boot with a newer system disk or if you 
want to jump into 24bit mode.  (System 6.0.8 doesn't support 32 bit addy).

On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Raymond Canfield wrote:

> I also had to say that this is one place where some kind of hardware  
> works under BSD but not under the MacOS.
> I have a 15" radius pivit GS.  It works fine under 24 bit mode under the
> MacOS but in 32 bit mode it freezes the mouse. (I can click the mouse, but
> it doesn't move.) I have tried every imaginable creation of
> extentions/control pannels/ etc., nothing will allow the mouse to move
> under 32 bit mode.  So does anyone have any idea of how to get out of 32
> bit mode on a IIci?  I had the thing up and running on a IIcx for quite a
> while and all I did was hold down the shift key (took mode32 out) and I
> was back in 24 bit mode.  The IIci doesn't use mode32 so that little trick
> doesn't work.  any ideas? thanks (sorry, this really doesn't go here, but
> the fact that the mouse works fine under BSD and NOT under the MacOS seems
> like something you guys would really enjoy hearing about. :-)
> 
> -ray
>   rcanfiel@thetaxi.digex.net
>   System Installation / Maintenance - Digital Express Group, Inc.
> 
>