Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:11:06 -0700 From: leonard@pacbell.net (Leonard Chung) To: simss@infi.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Message-ID: <v01540b00ae6ba0526632@[206.170.1.173]>
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>Their most frequent comment? "Wow! Lookie there at the cute little = >MacOS face that comes up while the system boots! 'Zat slick, or WHAT?" = >(For the Mac-impaired, the "old" splash screen was an icon of a Mac = >"Classic" that just stared out at you and "frowned" if something went = >awry.) Now, as the MacOS 7.5.x loads, it splashes icons, left-to-right, = >across the bottom of the display for each system extension (device = >driver for "us guys") that it loads. The users don't even like *that*; = >it's too much sensory input. I'm confused. You say that before 7.5.x, the splash screen just showed a Mac Classic (actually, its a 128K Mac), but now it shows extensions going across the bottom. The splash screen display of extensions (and more recently, control panels) has been around since about version 4.0. >Never mind that initialization on a 132 Mhz PowerPC can take up to 2 or = >3 minutes, "Ain't that face *cute*?" What are you guys running? I've got a 150 Mhz 604 chip on a Mac clone, and it takes less than a minute to boot. Leonard
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