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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Flames about Multifinder
Message-ID: <6148@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 14:40:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 14:40:13 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 06:22:20 EDT
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Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <7177@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> hallett@macbeth.steinmetz () writes:
>
>I think I've just  about had it with this  Multifinder sham that Apple
>is pulling on all of us.  First off, it cost us $49  to get the thing.
>Ok,  they had distribution  costs  and all   of    that so that's  ok.
>However, now  they  say that  it  requires  2Meg!   If  that's not bad
>enough,  System  4.1 craps Switcher, leaving  all  of  us  without any
>alternative except to  get Multifinder.  So  really Mulitfinder  costs
>~$549 including the $500 to get a CMOS upgrade to 2Meg.

Multifinder does not require 2Mb.  I am using it now on a 1Mb Mac Plus.
136K allocated to MacTerminal, 160K to Finder, 355K to the System, with
373K to run something else.

Multifinder should be equivalent (memory-wise) to running Switcher with the
Finder in one partition.  One important advantage of Multifinder is that
you can give the Finder only 160K and it can still get more memory (eg, for
disk copies) from Multifinder as needed.

I suppose that you could use one of the other Finder-substitutes that might
require less than 160K, and free up more memory that way.

>(I like Switcher A LOT.  As far as  I am concerned,  it is
>the best piece  of software Apple ever produced,  and  I use it  quite
>frequently.).  As I see it, there are only a few alternatives:

I never used Switcher at all because there was too much overhead in using
it.  On the other hand, I am using Multifinder on all my machines (2 Mac
Pluses, and 1 Levco Prodigy 4).


-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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