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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: UNIX and Mac applications on the Mac II
Message-ID: <9519@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 19:35:34 EST
Article-I.D.: duke.9519
Posted: Sat Apr 18 19:35:34 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 08:31:39 EST
Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC
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Keywords: UNIX, Mac II, multitasking, windows

Does anyone out there know if Apple will be trying to allow Mac applications
to run as tasks under UNIX? The situation seems to be that one will have
to reboot (!) the Mac II in order to run the Finder (or Juggler). This
seems to throw away the whole advantage of having a Mac II as opposed to
a Mac Plus and a Sun workstation, and is also very wasteful if one is
trying to run moderate sized computations under the UNIX environment,
which will die upon rebooting and switching to the Finder.

Especially nice would be the ability to run Finder/Juggler as a task under
UNIX so that both modes are available at the same time. The Mac II would then
be far more useful than a Sun workstation. Someone should be clever enough
to pull a trick like that off.

One more comment: will the scroll bars for standard windows be improved? Once
one has large (say 19") screens, it is pretty painful to jump back and
forth large distances to click on the righ/left or up/down scroll arrows.
Much better would be to put double arrows: <--> at each edge of the
screen, or even 4 arrow heads at each corner so that screen manipulation
can be done with a minimum of mousing. It would also be helpful to add
universal (application independent) key-board equivalents for scrolling
in both directions for the active window.