On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Ken Nakata wrote:

> 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.

No, but my point is that a user from a Unix background would not
understand that "extension" under MacOS refers to VM. 

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

Agreed.  Would have saved me a LOT of time and aggravation!

Steve