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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MultiMac and the new ROMs??
Message-ID: <317@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 14:36:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 14:36:24 1986
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In article <638@harvard.UUCP> olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric olson) writes:
>
>I also heard that Andy Hertzfeld might do a multitasker, and I certainly
>wouldn't put it past him.
>
It appears that this is true.  Someone who was at the recent show in
San Francisco posted a note to compuserve about this.  They had seen
it run.  It works with hard disks ( in fact, it was run on the Hyper
20 on the Mac of the guy posting the note ).

From his discription, it sounds like a cross between the Finder, Multimac,
a print spooler, and a terminal emulator.  That is, he mentioned that it
drew the desktop of his startup drawer much faster than the Finder does,
and that it has support for spooling and {up,down}load.

The most interesting part was the robustness of it.  Sometimes it 
would bomb, and Hertzfeld would smile, press a few keys, and the 
bombed application was gone, leaving everything else still 
running!  

I want one...
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim