CompuServe Messages

Jeff; I suspect that the reason that C= did not mention the change is that there is almost no way for them to know exactly how various machines will behave in that regard. The Ami multitasks during bootup as well as during operation. Many of the low level routines have had improvements in their speed. Some tasks as synchronized and some are not. Various choices that you make concerning number of screen colors, screen and window sizes, screen position, what is in your WorkBench Startup Drawer and your User Startup-Sequence all affect how long various processes take to run. Also, the speed, size, percent full, number and fragmentation of your hard drive(s) has an effect. For example, yours is 4 but mine is 2 and I suspect that the reason for the difference is that mine does more on startup than does yours before the shell is opened so that there is a "free slot" at 2 when the shell is opened. -bill