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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do screen-savers do anything useful?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 20:47:55 GMT
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In article <12392@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
>are pfutzing with the screen.  Try starting a long build in MPW.  When the
>screen saver kicks in, everything goes to H***, sometimes including a crash.
>Maybe, when I can again assure that the screen saver never kicks in unless
>everything is idle, I will go back to using one again. [I used one for many
>months, happily, before I finally put it aside].

I just tried doing a build in MPW and then forcing After Dark to go on
by putting the cursor into the "sleep now" region.  It worked fine.  While
MPW was doing the build, After Dark didn't get much processing time, which
is as it should be.

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