Kudos for MultiFinder

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From: Eric Pepke
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 21:44

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Apple has taken a lot of flak for some of the design decisions that were
made for MultiFinder, so I thought I'd say something nice for a change. 

I have been working quite intensely for the past few days on a reasonably
well configured NeXT machine (660 Mb hard drive, 8 Mb memory).  Doing
system management with several windows being edited, a couple of console
windows, and a few random applications running makes me really appreciate
the fact that the Macintosh puts all the windows of a particular application
in one layer.  Also, after suffering the application switching and user 
interface sluggishness for a while on the "true multitasking" NeXT, the
nonpreemptive multitasking on the Macintosh seems blindingly fast.

Eric Pepke                                     INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute  MFENET:   pepke@fsu
Florida State University                       SPAN:     scri::pepke
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052                     BITNET:   pepke@fsu

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