Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.system:7887 comp.sys.mac.wanted:4241 comp.sys.mac.apps:7228 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!claris!UUCP!peirce From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Looking for SWITCHER... Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 91 06:05:19 GMT Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Organization: Peirce Software Lines: 27 X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.5 In article <1991Jun28.162441.26851@neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: > > 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). Still, it seems > something was lost in the process. It would be an improvement if > the System 7 hide feature, instead of just making the windows of > an application invisible, moved them offscreen if memory was > available. > > Kind of ironic that this should come up at the same time as the thread > about how great the Amiga multiple screen feature is. This seems like it might gobble memory very quickly. It also doesn't sound like it would handle muliple screens too well. I'm staring at a 19" screen with 24 bits per pixel, I wouldn't want to allocate 3 Meg for each screen that gets swapped out every time I switched from MacDraw Pro to PhotoShop to ResEdit then back to MacDraw Pro! Even turning on VM to get enough memeory would be way too ssllooww... -- michael -- Michael Peirce -- outpost!peirce@claris.com -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- & Consulting -- (408) 244-6554, AppleLink: PEIRCE