Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Turning off time slices in S7 Message-ID: <13794@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 31 May 91 17:50:39 GMT References: <1991May31.030742.10637@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Object Based Systems, Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 18 In article <1991May31.030742.10637@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich) writes: >a Mac?", etc., etc.) What is needed is a "Single App Mode" toggle that would >temporarily turn off much of the System 7 overhead and allow only one app to >run while still booted under System 7. I'll bet it wouldn't be an easy thing >to implement, though. It is straightforward to write a program that sends a quit Apple event to all running apps (including the Finder) and then launches another app such as Tetris (killing itself in the process). When Tetris quits the Finder would restart. -- Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. lsr@apple.com (or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)