jmacz
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I remember as a kid in the 80s, without a thought about memory and performance, my friends and I would try to get as many startup or boot icons showing on the Welcome to Macintosh screen, almost like a badge of honor on how much software we had found and installed on our Macs. I remember getting into a third row of icons on my Macintosh SE.
What I don’t remember however is having any of these extensions or control panels clearing the screen during boot (the Welcome to Macintosh disappears and the previous icons also all disappear, but the remaining icons show up in the next positions).
I have one extension on my SE doing this right now (Responder) and one control panel on my IIci doing this (E-machines Control Panel). When these extensions or control panels load, the screen clears before the icon shows up and remaining extensions or control panels appear and load to the right.
What causes this screen clear? Is this a bug in those extensions or control panels? Or is there something they do that causes a clear?
My OCD is kicking in
What I don’t remember however is having any of these extensions or control panels clearing the screen during boot (the Welcome to Macintosh disappears and the previous icons also all disappear, but the remaining icons show up in the next positions).
I have one extension on my SE doing this right now (Responder) and one control panel on my IIci doing this (E-machines Control Panel). When these extensions or control panels load, the screen clears before the icon shows up and remaining extensions or control panels appear and load to the right.
What causes this screen clear? Is this a bug in those extensions or control panels? Or is there something they do that causes a clear?
My OCD is kicking in