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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP
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Date: 8 Jun 91 08:47:44 GMT
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In article <6561@crystal9.UUCP> derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes:
> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
> 
> >............When running under system 6 I did need the MMINIT ......
> 
> What is the mminit?  I cannot find it at Sumex-Aim.  What exactly 
> does it do?  Thanks

The general purpose answer to this question is "Nevermind".  

The init attempted to fix a minor performance problem in the ROMs of some Macs.   
Those problems are fixed much better and without some unpleasent side effects  
in system 7.  The problem only slowed down a few programs (from my vague  
memory, I only heard of three programs, one of which was TheNews, and the other  
two I don't remember).

To track down the (never officially released) init at this point, install it on  
a system 6 machine, and sort out any incompatibilities caused by the init (and  
some are caused) is not worth the effort.  You'll waste more time than you'd  
gain by speeding up TheNews (since you'll probably be moving to system 7 soon  
anyway, and that does a better job of fixing things up).

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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA