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number of users can access it simultaneously.
Virtual Desktop can be placed on an AppleShare file server, where any
Finder.
Virtual Desktop also works on Macintoshes running At Ease instead of
changes in later versions of Finder.
Virtual Desktop may someday be replaced by one which takes account of
it warns you and lets you decide whether to continue. This version of
system version at startup, and if it finds itself in an unfamiliar version,
Finder works. Because of this dependency, Virtual Desktop checks the
NOTE: To work as it does, the program needs intimate knowledge of how
information.
See the section entitled “Virtual Desktop Extension” for more
required in order for the application to operate.
then suggest that you restart your Macintosh. This system extension is
Desktop, it will ask for permission to install its own system extension,
There is nothing special to install, but the first time you open Virtual
Any Macintosh running System 7.0 or later can use Virtual Desktop.
åWho Can Use Virtual Desktop?
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And last, it’s free.
features to do the whole job in the fewest possible clicks and keystrokes.
sophisticated user interface. Fourth, it takes advantage of System 7
it’s free. Second, it works on all types of monitors. Third, it has a
Virtual Desktop has a number of advantages over these solutions. First,
capability.
display stations or expansion cards with hardware-based scroll and zoom
The third, an increasingly lucrative business, is the sale of graphic
estate by opening up the usually black area at the edges of the monitor.
program with hardware dependencies, bought the user some extra real
moved the mouse to the edge of the screen. The second, a shareware
techniques, extended the desktop by scrolling it away when the user
this problem. The first, a commercial program using software
On the Macintosh, to date, there have been three successful solutions to
window shows the user where all the windows are, in a stylized form.
non-overlapping and arranged in a rigid grid pattern. A small-scale
where various programs can put their windows. Usually, these rooms are
buffers, they let the user’s screen view move between several “rooms”
System workstations. Having allocated some memory for off-screen
adaptation of the kind of virtual window manager found on many X Window
Virtual Desktop, the virtual desktop manager for the Macintosh, is an
PowerBook computers, because of their small screen size.
windows productively. This problem is especially acute for people using
in, but don’t have the “screen real estate” to handle large numbers of
modern Macintosh computers, who have plenty of RAM to run programs
Virtual Desktop is the answer to a growing problem among users of
åPurpose
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