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Bully Bride of Buster (11/26/97)
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Meanwhile, it's time to start getting jazzed about Mac OS 8.1, the system software update expected to ship in early January, according to InfoWorld Electric. While it's not as significant an upgrade as Mac OS 8 (hence the decimalized increment), it includes at least one very nice feature that we, at least, are eagerly awaiting.

Mac OS 8.1 introduces support for a new Mac file system, once called HFS+, and now apparently named "Mac OS Extended Format." The current Mac file system has a minimum block size that is a straight percentage of the disk's total capacity. Meaning, if you've got a large hard disk, if you save 1KB of data into a file, that file still takes up, say, 64KB of disk space. (Sort of like when the phone company bills you to the next full minute.) If you work with lots of small files, that wasted space really adds up.

Mac OS Extended Format addresses this problem fairly nicely. One beta tester who converted his 2GB hard disk from HFS to the new system freed up over 300MB of wasted space. That, plus the reported speed increase in the new file system, is enough to make us wait on pins and needles.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/26/97 episode:

November 26, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 214: Hot Deals on Friday? (11/26/97)   Apple Recon's at it again, with an update on their previous juicy story about some upcoming great Mac deals about to enter the channel. The latest skinny is that the rumor is now official, given Apple's less-than-pleased response to Recon's first report...

  • 215: Korean Mac NC's for All (11/26/97)   And while Recon thinks those discount Macs streaming in from south of the border are related somehow to a missing announcement at the November 10th shindig, that obfuscating implement Mac the Knife has his own dirt to dish about the decidedly ho-hum event and its missing 90 minutes of dazzle. The Knife's first revelation isn't very surprising to faithful AtAT viewers; yes, indeed, Steve Jobs had expected to reveal a major Apple/Oracle deal in addition to the Apple Store, G3 systems, and build-to-order boxes...

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