Subject: Re: System hangs?
To: None <shirsch@ibm.net>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/08/1997 08:45:09
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 06:55:13 -0400 (EDT),
"Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@ibm.net> wrote:
> 
> Well, all I know is that it would not boot BSD until I opened the object
> called "Monitors" in Control Panel and clicked the radio button from
> Greyscale to Color - followed by a restart.  I stand by my comments; this
> is not intuitive on a machine which doesn't alter the visuals one iota as
> a result...

Ah, ok, I got it.  So you are saying it should have been "1-bit
Grayscale or Color mode" instead of "1-bit Color", right?  To me,
it kinda sounds picky, but I'm not against a clearer description.

> Agreed.  And, not being a Mac hacker, the word "extension" does not
> necessarily imply VM and/or networking to me.

No, I didn't mean INSTALL file should have used "extension" word.  But
rather, since there are some extensions that need to be turned off,
and one other that needs to be turned on on some machines (incl. your
SE/30), at NetBSD boot time, the file should have mentioned them in a
clear way.  Right now, it doesn't.

I don't think you need to be a Mac "hacker" to turn off VM or
RAMdoubler, and turn on 32-bit addressing mode, all in control panels.
If that's the definition of a Mac "hacker", virtually all Mac users
are Mac hackers.

Anyway, it should be possible to instruct the reader to turn on or off
certain extensions in plain English.

I'm sending a PR on this.

Ken