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From: pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Paul Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at ho
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Date: 15 Jan 91 02:04:44 GMT
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In article <42516@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>
>They aren't load-order dependent.  Unfortunately, Mac developers (at least the
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>ones doing major apps) are pretty sloppy about code size and applications can't
>request more memory (this is a simplification) from the OS, so they take up
>fixed amounts of space in MultiFinder partitions.

As a matter of fact they are load order dependent.  Some applications
adjust when there isn't as much memory available as they want and some
do not.  Therefore I have to launch the apps which cannot adjust first
so I can be sure to get all the apps running that I want.  (In this
particular case it is Excel, Mathwriter and Word.  Word and Excel will
use less space if there is not enough available but Mathwriter just
won't launch if it is last.  That seems kind of load order dependent to
me).
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>For example, on a 2 meg Mac, the OS takes up about 250k, the Finder takes up
>160k, Word wants 512, and Excel wants a meg.  (These are all the current 
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What version of Word is this?  The Word on the MAC right behind me is
668K and asks for 1Meg when it starts up.

>
>I'm sorry your secretary doesn't have access to reasonable Mac support.  I have
>a bunch of people on my network doing that sort of thing and they might have
>to wait 30 seconds or so for something to spool to disk so that it can be 
>printed in the background.

I hope you have a better background printer than the one supplied by
Apple.  When something is printing in the background I have found that
even scrolling thru text is painful.

>
>[comments on the inadequacy of Apple developer info deleted]

This was the best part of Thad's post!

I'm sure that Allen can tell me that if I do this, that, or the other
thing on the MAC that Multifinder works great.  But that only proves
that there is a difference between MAC tasking and multi-tasking because
on the Amiga multi-tasking always works well.

Paul.