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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem rebuilding desktop file
Summary: Wasn't it called Desktop Manager?
Message-ID: <810@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Oct 89 21:51:32 GMT
References: <5134@shlump.nac.dec.com:
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <5134@shlump.nac.dec.com: long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard Long) writes:
:In article <1836@draken.nada.kth.se:, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes...
::You are. It's finder application partition memory. It's easily
::settable in the get-info-dialog, but it's still easier to just
::restart without MF.
:
:This is interesting.  I remember reading some time ago that System 7.0 wouldn't
:allow anything but MultiFinder.  I wonder how this situation will be handled,
:given that large hard disks are becoming the norm.
:
:Rich

I seem to remember from all of the stuff that I read, and what I heard at BCS
that they are also re-doing the way the desktop works (wasn't it called the
Desktop Manager, or something like that?  I presume that that will fix it
once and for all, including these annoying 30-sec desktop upgrades that develop
over time, necessitating a rebuild...

--Mike

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