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From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Preview of Multi-Finder and Hyper-Card (long)
Message-ID: <1507@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 17:13:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.1507
Posted: Wed Aug 19 17:13:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 04:58:01 EDT
References: <2165@mulga.oz>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
Lines: 40
Keywords: Multi-Finder, Hyper-Card, Preview, Macintosh

In article <2165@mulga.oz> jteh@mulga.oz (J.T. Teh) writes:
>Preview of Multi-Finder and Hyper-Card
>At the moment, to launch Multi-Finder, it has to be selected as the
>start-up application via the menu option. Once Multi-Finder has been
	Or you can command-option double click on it from the
	finder.  If you change it's type to APPL it runs like
	any other application.
>Currently, Multi-Finder only supports print spooling as a background
>task. The recommended configuration for Multi-FInder is 2mB as each
	If you mean that print spooling is the only supported
	backrgound task, you are in correct.  Multi-Finder
	supports any background task.  It is (unfortunately)
	the responsibility of the task to make sure it is
	suitable to being run as a background task.  Hopefully
	this will be fixed in the future.
Speaking of A/UX says:
>recommended number of users that can be on at any one time is 3. It
>supports multi-tasking and allows you to develop Macintosh applications
>in a UNIX enviroment and vice-versa. You can also start Macintosh
>applications from within A/UX but will not allow you to go back into
>A/UX without rebooting. This can be remedied by modifying the application
	Strange, it seems to go back to A/UX just fine.  You just
	quit the application.  For what it's worth, A/UX never really
	quit running, it's background processes and other scheduling
	executes as normal.  The only change is the mac program running
	as a UNIX process on the console.
>
>A new ImageWriter PS(?) was announced which will have 261dpi quality.
	Actually, it's the "BusinessWriter"
>J.T. Teh
>jteh@mulga.oz.australia
>> Be free to repost this message anywhere as long as it is posted in full
>> with the author's name - J.T.
	Sorry, but that would have more than doubled the size of this
	response.

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	David W. Berry
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