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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Norton v. SUM II (& DeskTop files & ...)
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.095838.13641@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 6 Nov 90 09:58:38 GMT
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drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:

>In article <1182@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) 
>writes:
>> One problem that's going to crop up - when we're all running Desktop
>> Manager, these optimisers are probably going to break, since D.M. seems
>> to keep its Desktop files open all the time.

>That turns out not to be the case. I just optimized three of my partitions 
>using Norton Speed Disk while Desktop Manager was active. No problem at 
>all.

You can thank the many delays during NUM's Beta for that.  John was going to
wait for the next release to make Desktop Manager-ified drives behave
right, but between Stephan Somogyi's (of McUser Labs) creebing and the
desktop accessory conflict-fixing times, there was enough impetus for him
to get D.M. drives to work Just Fine.

Someone mentioned how they hadn't found any incompatibilities with
their suite of DAs and CDEVs.  I think the guys at Norton will take
particular pride in that offhand comment--they spent a lot of time
ironing them out.

Most of those delays, by the bye, were caused by a large company in
Redmond, WA, who seems to have their own idea of just how Mac
applications ought to work.  (Only they could Excel with a requester
that gets dynamically sized so that buttons appear or disappear
depending on how long the total window size is--I could go on.)  

It was a long and somewhat frustrating beta-test, but worth every
minute.  NUM is indispensible.

Now, if he can just make speed-disk work on drives with bad sectors
(coming Real Soon Now)...

	Beta tester and software-breaker,
		(``Now it can be told!'')
			Alex
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