11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
6:42 a.m.
On 11 October 2012 14:01, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
I started over-thinking it and wondering if any installer has let you select
a completely different source of media on-the-fly, though? (Normally it's
"take the media out, put the next in the set back in the same drive")
Classic MacOS was that smart, although some custom-written install
programs weren't.
But in general, classic MacOS said "please insert volume X" and then
looked for a mounted volume by that name in any available drive. So if
you had a twin-floppy Mac with a hard disk, you could install programs
in, if not quite half the time, significantly less. Disk N in drive 1,
disk N+1 in drive 2, then swap N for N+2 while it works on N+1...
Some Amiga stuff was that smart as well, I think; both Amigas and Macs
went through a period when twin-floppy machines were much more
affordable - and much more usable - than hard-disk based ones, and
either of them with twin floppies was far more usable than a PC or
CP/M box with twin floppies, where dumb old text-mode apps looked for
A: and B: and they were not interchangeable.
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