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From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
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Subject: Re: Why do application partitions exist?
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Date: 12 Feb 91 13:32:03 GMT
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In article <11033@adobe.UUCP> gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman) writes:
>    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.

If I remember correctly, a European (French?) man's name was
attached to this, but the popular rumor was that only Andy
Hertzfeld could have written it since it made use of
undocumented hooks in the ROMs.  Does anyone have any
information about that?  Was it an inspiration for
MultiFinder?

David Fry                               fry@math.harvard.EDU
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