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From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Why do application partitions exist?
Message-ID: <11033@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 10:20:27 GMT
References: <0B010004.qtlrta@outpost.UUCP>
Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <0B010004.qtlrta@outpost.UUCP> peirce@outpost.UUCP writes:
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>My memory is rather rusty, but I recall a hack that provided multiple
>applications running in a single large heap.  It was either slightly
>before Switcher or contemporary with it.
...
>I don't recall what this was called, and it fadded away quickly with
>the coming of Switcher.  Does anyone remember this and what it was
>called?

    There was a very cool piece of software called MultiMac which
allowed you to run multiple applications with background processing.
It was definitely before MultiFinder but did allow the screen to be
shared (unlike Switcher). Evidently it was hard coded to use the
64K Roms and died when the 128K Rom came out. The version I saw
was a great demo but you couldn't use it for real work. I never heard
anything about the memory management approach it took.

David