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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hey!  What about us, Mac+ users!
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Date: 5 Jun 88 01:46:13 GMT
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>A year from now, any program that isn't Multifinder compatible will be
>unsaleable on the marketplace. For the most part, that's already true. 

Damn. One clarifications BEFORE everyone yells at me on this. A major market
segment where this is NOT true is games. That'll probably continue to be
true for the forseeable future (many games would have trouble dealing with 
sharing their environment, frankly). but it's something that is going to
have to be dealt with sometime. I'm already at the point where if it isn't
Multifinder compatible, I don't bother because I know I won't play it -- my
primary game playing time is with a 50 page document in the laserwriter
spooler, which doesn't lend itself well to rebooting and playing Crystal
Quest (unless, of course, the OTHER Mac isn't being used, which is rare
these days....).

So except for games, it has to be MF compatible. And games better start
thinking about it, or System release 7.0 is going to really slap some folks
in the face.

Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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