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From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
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Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
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Date: 29 Mar 91 21:21:03 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.195719.15623@maths.tcd.ie> mike@maths.tcd.ie (MIKE ROGERS) writes:
>	The Amiga just goes ahead and launches multiple copies. I saw this
>happen with a user and ProPage2. She'd launched three copies of the program 
>before I could stop her, each overlaying the other. Nice.

Why would one want this functionality?  I use a Mac with Multifinder
running, and I can have multiple copies of the same program running if
I make duplicate copies of the program on the disk, using different
names, and then starting each of them.  But so what?  I can recall
only one occassion where I needed to do that in the last three years,
and that was with a "quick hack" type program that had almost none of
the normal capabilities.

The "normal capabilities," which most commercial Mac programs nowadays
seem to have, include the ability of an application program to have
several documents open at once in separate windows.  Given that,
what's the point of running several copies of the same program?

John E. Doner	doner@henri.ucsb.edu	(805)893-3941
Dept. Mathematics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106