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From: sho@tybalt.caltech.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
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Subject: Re: Moire Weirdness
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Date: 11 Feb 88 14:53:24 GMT
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In article <8114@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant) writes:
>I replaced Stars with Moire, because I like Moire better.  However, I am using
>MultiFinder and I am experiencing some oddness.
>
>If I leave my Macintosh sitting with just Finder running, Moire's movement of
>the pattern is very jumpy.  (It moves, stops, moves, stops, moves, stops...)
>
>If I leave my Macintosh sitting with Finder and anything else running, it's
>okay.  For example, I've taken to keeping Alarm Clock running in the upper
>right hand corner of the screen.  When Moire finally comes up, it runs
>smoothly.
>
>Is there a more recent version running around that fixes this?

I think this is another case of "feature, not a bug," but I'm not sure.
Moire will slow down when my terminal emulator is downloading a file,
and presumably, it looks jerky under multi-finder because background jobs
are getting time.  

						-Sho

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