Path: utzoo!yunexus!intacc!grinch
From: grinch@intacc.uucp (Reginald Braithwaite-Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BlackBox 1.5
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.015638.11656@intacc.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 89 01:56:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: intacc.1989Nov16.015638.11656
References: <IZI8WSS00UzxA1WF9d@andrew.cmu.edu> <1989Nov6.163432.6058@uunet!unhd>
Reply-To: grinch@intacc.UUCP (Reginald Braithwaite-Lee)
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In article <1989Nov6.163432.6058@uunet!unhd> tjb@unhd.UUCP (Thomas J  Baker) writes:
>How about allowing any screen saver to be used with Black Box, (Moire, Flex,
>or Pyro) or, at least make the supplied screen saver allow background tasks
>to run.  Having the screen saver lock up the CPU really puts a damper on
>Telnet sessions.


This is an instance of the general problem of a swiss army knife.  I think
Black Box would be better off with fewer features implemented well and the
rest left out.  Of course the author would need to make it 'friendly' enough
to co-operate with outher INITs, CDEVs, &tc.