From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 19:07:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA27444 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PACBELL.net (chumash.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA27421 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.170.1.170] (ppp-206-170-1-170.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.1.170]) by PACBELL.net (8.7.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id TAA03601; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:06:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: leonard@postoffice.pacbell.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:11:06 -0700 To: simss@infi.net From: leonard@pacbell.net (Leonard Chung) Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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