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Subject: Re: Looking for SWITCHER...
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In article <1991Jun28.162441.26851@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes...
>In article <1991Jun28.050137.22383@calvin.ee.cornell.edu>, jose@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Jose M. Rosado-Roman) writes:
>|> Do any of you out there know where I can get a copy of a really old
>|> application called SWITCHER??  It is supposed to be a pre-multifinder
>|> application that did what the multifinder does now...

>To my recollection, Switcher needed 512K or more - are you sure the
>machine has only 128K?

True.  But what an amazing thing that Andy Hertzfeld gave us!
I used to be able to "download" in the background with Switcher
by running a macro that occasionally switched to Red Ryder to
soak up the contents of the serial port buffer.  

>Multifinder, with all applications visible at the same time,
>was touted as an improvement (mostly, it was; I wonder how many
>people remember or know which multifinder features were originally
>introduced as clever hacks to make Switcher work). 

Not to mention the fact the Multifinder development was done 
parallel to Hertzfeld's Servant project.  Servant did many neat
things that ended in System 7.0 with just a bit of a twist ...
I loved the hand icon that let you drag the window around, and
the zoom views, and the easy access to resources ... and the
NAME especially.  Multifinder (huh?).  We didn't even have a 
"Find" command in UniFinder until System 7.0.  Servant was a 
name that made sense.

>Kind of ironic that this should come up at the same time as the thread
>about how great the Amiga multiple screen feature is.

But please don't xref to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy ...  ;-)

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)