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From: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MultiMac and the new ROMs??
Message-ID: <638@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 12:34:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 12:34:15 1986
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Reply-To: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric olson)
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
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From my examination of MultiMac, I believe it doesn't work on hard disks
because a large part of it is a disk cacher.  If it is designed to supplant
the Sony driver, it would not work on any disk not using the Sony driver (i.e.,
anything but a floppy).  An old version of Multimac consisted primarily of
a DRVR named ".Diskbuffer", so I suspect it grew out of a much simpler
disk driver into a multitasker.  Later versions of it don't have the DRVR
in a DRVR resource, but still look pretty much the same inside.

Don't ask me where I got these (Offa some bulletin board), they were beta
and didn't work right all the time... but what supprised me was how
seldom it actually crashed!  None of the ones I've seen worked on a Hyperdrive
or a Lisa running Macworks.

I heard a rumor that they had given up on developing this, but
1)  Its pretty neat and 
2)  It would be a pity to quit now

I also heard that Andy Hertzfeld might do a multitasker, and I certainly
wouldn't put it past him.

-Eric.