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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.073542.442@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 91 07:35:42 GMT
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rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>In article <1991Jun27.033737.19606@neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:

>>For once, a Mac vs Amiga discussion is not turning into another
>>silly "my computer is better than yours war". Other than the
>>feature of being able to have different video attributes on
>>each screen, is this really so much different from the Mac
>>feature of being able to selectively hide applications (in
>>System 7)?

>  I dunno because I don't know how the hide feature works on the Mac.
>On the Amiga, usually "hide" closes the current app screen/window
>and changes it into an icon or titlebar that can be clicked on or
>brought back via hotkey. 

  Hide on the Mac removes all the application's windows from the screen, 
and dims the application's icon in the Application menu.  You can choose
to either Hide the current application, or Hide all others (most useful 
in the Finder to get at the desktop).  You can also hide the current 
application as you switch to another by holding down the Option key.

>  When a Mac app is hidden, does it still run/render, 

  Yes.

>and more importantly,
>how long does it take for it to reopen it's display? 

  As long as it takes to respond to an update event.  In the case of
something like HyperCard, it's instantaneous.  With a complicated model
in AutoCad, it could take a while, unless the application saves away the
current state of the screen on a Suspend event (as Switcher used to do).

>If it has
>to redraw everything, it may start to get annoying if you switch alot.

  Yes, in which case I use the 21" monitor, and have everything open at
the same time.  :-)

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