![]() Mac OS 8.1 brings together a large collection of new (and recently new) system components. No Macs have yet shipped with DVD-ROM drives, but E4 has reportedly demonstrated a CoolDVD PCI card that enables Macs to use external third-party DVD-ROM drives. To use a UDF formatted CD-ROM, you need at least a double-speed CD-ROM drive. Mac OS 8.1 also ships with support for new types of storage media: UDF (Universal Disk Format) CD-ROMs and DVD-ROM disks. Less visibly, the Finder eliminates several memory leaks when using Apple events, so scripting the Mac OS 8.1 Finder is more robust. ![]() There's also a new control for Finder list views that reverses a window's sort direction (handy for listing items from oldest to newest, for example). What's New Besides HFS Plus? Mac OS 8.1 offers faster launch times and speedier copying to and from network volumes. We have an article about HFS Plus later in this issue, so here I'll talk about what else is new in 8.1 and how to install it. Apple has released Mac OS 8.1, and the Macintosh community is buzzing with talk about the new components and trying to figure out the new (and optional) disk format, Macintosh Extended Format, also known as HFS Plus.
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