Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!haven!wam!ddev From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC Message-ID: <1990Apr12.131818.17034@wam.umd.edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 13:18:18 GMT References: <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <626@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> <28761@cup.portal.com> <28812@cup.portal.com> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET Posting) Reply-To: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe) Distribution: na Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 36 In article <28812@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes: >To use MultiFinder on the Macintosh, you require at least a Mac Plus, at >least version 5.0 of the operating system and at least 1 meg of RAM. BUT >the instructions explicity warn that you will need at least 2 meg if you >plan to run more than one large application program at a time. First, Apple hands out OS revisions for free, so who cares if multifinder requires 5.0? Second, of course you need at least 2 megs to run more than one large program! Heck, I've got plenty of applications which require 2-3 megs all to themselves. >Amigas multitask from the moment you power up Workbench. Multifinder must >be specifically configured for startup. This is not a significant difference >but more a detail of convenience. Specifically configured? What this means is you have a choice between finder or multifinder. Changing between the two takes only 2 mouse clicks... >Multifinder doesn't work with all Mac programs. And neither do all programs multitask on the Amiga. If properly written, there is no problem. As I said, if a program doesn't work, just 2 clicks and you're back in finder. >On the Mac, to set aside memory for running an application under Multifinder, >you can trust the default or tweak it from a utility to increase or decrease >the size. Personally, I like the operating system to worry about this for me >rather than juggling memory menus. Gee, and I thought that one of the biggest complaints most Amiga owners have about the Mac is that the OS worries about doing too much for the user, thus taking away the user's control over the system... -- Don DeVoe ddev@epsl.umd.edu