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From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Patton Vs. Rommel vs. MacII
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Date: 10 Jan 88 21:24:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jan 10 15:24:00 1988


I wish someone would combine the following features into a central
utility (FKEY?)  that would make the Mac II behave more like a vanilla
Mac:

1.  Turn off cache
2.  Turn off multifinder or disable it.
3.  Go to black/white mode
4.  Recofigure the machine to think it only has 1 megabyte
5.  Can anyone think of other things to try, to make misbehaving
    programs run?

(It might have to reboot the machine to do this).

This would be a great help to Mac II owners, but a step backwards,
because it encourages sleazy software products, such as the Microsoft
(Excel), Macpaint (Bill Atkinson) and MacWrite (Apple).  All these
programs use terribly machine-dependent kluges and don't rely on the
system software the way they should.

Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
            {gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}