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In article <21857@dcatla.UUCP> mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar) writes:
>
>	- The Mac dialog boxes lock out *all* user input to tasks or windows
>	  other than the dialog box itself.  What if I want to pull up the
>	  on-line documentation to help me decide what to set in the dialog?
>	  This is a BIG malfeature of Multifinder.

Dialogs are controlled by the program, not MultiFinder, if a programmer 
wanted to allow you access to other functions of the program while a dialog
was open, it could probably be done, though it may not be easy.

>	- While printing a background job, I often have a hard time keeping
>	  control of the mouse pointer -- it's like using the mouse as a
>	  slingshot.  Very annoying.

The problem is disk access in the background, unless Apple includes DMA for
SCSI in the future, mouse motions will always be jerky in some operations.

>
>	- You need gobs of memory to do anything useful with MultiFinder.
>	  This is as much the fault of what I call "software bloat" as
>	  MultiFinder's actual memory requirements (although 500K+ is quite
>	  a bit), and this is getting just as bad on Amigas, so this isn't
>	  that much of a difference.

Almost every platform is starving for memory with a variety of applications
that are coming out now. And these programs are usually significantly more
feature laden and powerful the before too....so this just is not a Multifinder
problem by a long shot. Some programs want more than 1 meg whether MultiFinder
is running or not.


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