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- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Subject: Switch-It! & MultiLaunch (Re: Multiple Applications on IIGS)
- Message-ID: <bazyar.722558022@teal>
- Keywords: IIGS multifinder
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:33:42 GMT
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- uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
-
- >Remember the rumors that WestCode was working on a "MultiFinder" for the
- >IIGS? Then remember hearing that it was cancelled? Well, Alan Bird
- >posted the prototype version on AOL recently and _it works!_
-
- There are many people who couldn't get it to work at all, including
- myself. I finally removed all DA's and Inits and it then at least didn't
- hang on launching programs. Its implementation as a CDEV makes it
- difficult to use programs that it is not compatible with (do you shift
- boot to keep the CDEV from loading? You lose all your DAs and inits
- and other CDEVS! Go through and turn them all off with Get Info?
- Back to square one).
- I ran through some of the Switch-It! bug reports under MultiLaunch,
- and sure enough, most of them were in ML. Conflicts in font manager
- usage between word processor apps, illegal methods of tool patching,
- and all manner of evils are present in MultiLaunch.
-
- >I've already tried it, and had the Finder, Teach, and AppleWorks GS all
- >going at once (NOT multitasking, but instantly switchable). It puts a
- >menu in the upper-right corner of the menu bar, which allows you to look
- >at memory stats for each application, launch applications, and add
- >applications to the menu for future use.
-
- So does Switch-It!; so what's the difference? Switch-It! is a tested,
- completed, commercial product.
-
- The GEnie sysops refused to post MultiLaunch after their dissection of
- it; this staff includes Matt Deatherage and Jim Murphy, two highly
- respected individuals in the realm of IIgs debugging and evils-testing.
-
- Of course, Switch-It! isn't free; MultiLaunch is. But will you
- trust your data to a program that may/may not crash at any particular time?
- There's a point where MultiLaunch stops being 'neat' and wants to be
- useful, but it's got too many problems.
-
- I respect Alan Bird (he's beaten us to a number of projects :-),
- but ML is nothing to rave about.
-
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