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I always thought it was weird that the Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1 Disk Tools disks didn't seem to have any of the OS 8 enhancements, such as the multithreaded Finder, yet showed 8.0 and 8.1 in their versions. I fed the System file for Mac OS 8.0 Disk Tools 2 through ResEdit, opened the DSAT ID = 0 resource, and discovered at 0x24C the string "System 7.5.3 needs more memory to start up." Additionally, the vers ID = 1 resource for Finder states the version as 7.5.6DT, even though the last release of the 7.5.x series was 7.5.5. Perhaps Apple decided that the minimum set of 7.6 was too large for a floppy disk, yet didn't need the updates from 7.5.5, so froze System at 7.5.3, yet kept the 7.5.x Finder up-to-date with bug fixes and forked the codebase to add more to create 7.5.6DT? |
I always thought it was weird that the Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1 Disk Tools disks didn't seem to have any of the OS 8 enhancements, such as the multithreaded Finder, yet showed 8.0 and 8.1 in their versions. I fed the System file for Mac OS 8.0 Disk Tools 2 through ResEdit, opened the DSAT ID = 0 resource, and discovered at 0x24C the string "System 7.5.3 needs more memory to start up." Additionally, the vers ID = 1 resource for Finder states the version as 7.5.6DT, even though the last release of the 7.5.x series was 7.5.5. Perhaps Apple decided that the minimum set of 7.6 was too large for a floppy disk, yet didn't need the updates from 7.5.5, so froze System at 7.5.3, yet kept the 7.5.x Finder up-to-date with bug fixes and forked the codebase to add more to create 7.5.6DT? Also, the copyright string was never updated past 1996. |
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Revision as of 18:38, 30 March 2023
The Disk Tools System Software clearly has some special things with it. For one, if you copy it to a hard disk and boot from it, you get a warning about this System Software not being meant for anything but booting from a floppy disk. Additionally, the System file appears to be missing a lot of important stuff that lets you run applications without half of them crashing for strange reasons.
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I always thought it was weird that the Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1 Disk Tools disks didn't seem to have any of the OS 8 enhancements, such as the multithreaded Finder, yet showed 8.0 and 8.1 in their versions. I fed the System file for Mac OS 8.0 Disk Tools 2 through ResEdit, opened the DSAT ID = 0 resource, and discovered at 0x24C the string "System 7.5.3 needs more memory to start up." Additionally, the vers ID = 1 resource for Finder states the version as 7.5.6DT, even though the last release of the 7.5.x series was 7.5.5. Perhaps Apple decided that the minimum set of 7.6 was too large for a floppy disk, yet didn't need the updates from 7.5.5, so froze System at 7.5.3, yet kept the 7.5.x Finder up-to-date with bug fixes and forked the codebase to add more to create 7.5.6DT? Also, the copyright string was never updated past 1996.
