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From: bmug@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MultiMac and the new ROMs??
Message-ID: <541@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 16:59:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 16:59:49 1986
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Reply-To: bmug@well.UUCP (Frederick A. Huxham)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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In article <135@vertigo.UUCP> pbaker@vertigo.UUCP (Peter Baker) writes:
>[for the line eater]
>
>I have two questions to those in netland.
>
>    1 - What has happened to MultiMac?  There was a small roar on
>	the net for a week or so ... and then nothing.
>

According to Andy Hertzfeld at the Expo in SF, MultiMac is pretty much dead
and will never be released as a finished product.  Andy had spoken to the 
programmer of MultiMac and (I assume) seen some of the code, and reported
that the author had pretty much programmed himself into a corner.  The author
made too many assumptions about the behavior of other programs, called ROM
directly, and many other no-no's.

The latest report was that the author of MultiMac was writing accounting
software for a bank in Holland or something like that.

All hope should not be lost however, Andy is working on a new program he calls
"Servant" which will replace the finder and switcher, and which behaves
a lot like MultiMac.  He showed it to a few people at the show, but wouldn't
show or talk about it publicly yet.  

I saw it run, and my reaction was similar to when I first saw Switcher run.
Jaw hitting the floor, head shaking in amazement, how could I get a copy?,
why can't I write applications like this?, etc...

I have to admit that I saw it run on the Levco 68020/68081 16Mhz machine
with 4Megs of memory and an internal 20meg hard disk which I'm sure added to
my amazement level, but what the program did and not the speed at which it
ran was the impressive thing.

I'll try and figure out a good way to adequately describe what I saw of 
"Servant" and post it to the net in a few days.

Fred A. Huxham
still amazed