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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Who knowest more?
Message-ID: <121@stech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 08:22:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: stech.121
Posted: Mon Aug 10 08:22:47 1987
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Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <11387@decwrl.DEC.COM>, lampson@crvax1.dec.com (All you can do is smile, Smile, SMILE!) says:
> 
> 
>  	In today's Chicago Trib, our infamous "On computers" columnist has
> surprised me again.  In reporting on the deficiencies of OS/2, he recommends
> purchasing a Mac over an MS-DOS machine.  His reasons are:
>       - Mac can address memory beyond MS-DOS's 640k limit
>       - New Mac application software continues to be introduced at a dizzying


Rumors about Multi-Finder have been circulating for a few weeks now in places
like InfoWorld.  There has also been some chat on CompuServe about it.  It
would seem that it will be shown at the Boston expo, but whether we can get
our hands on it there is another question.  

My understanding is that it will run on any Mac that has adequate RAM
(i.e., at least a meg) and that at the moment, it will be more like Switcher
than true multi-tasking, since it has no way to protect memory.  Memory
protection hardward will eventually be available for the Mac II, which means
that someday Mulit-Finder will do true multi-tasking.  For the moment, what
it will give us is the ability to switch between multiple applications running
in multiple windows, though like Switcher, an application will be suspended
when its window isn't active.

If somebody knows more about this than I do, please correct me.  I'll ask
around at the expo and see what I can dig up, as well.

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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