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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire seems "herky-jerky" now...
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Date: 17 Aug 89 03:32:00 GMT
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In article <17218@ut-emx.UUCP> jay@ut-emx.UUCP (Jay Boisseau) writes:
>I just discovered that the "herky-jerky" motion DOES NOT OCCUR if VersaTerm 3.0
>is the "open" application when Moire comes on, but it DOES OCCUR if either
>Word 4.0 or Finder is the the "open" application.  Does this give anyone
>a clue?  Does this mean I am getting a minute performance problem when using
>Word 4.0?

  Roughly speaking, MultiFinder gives background applications time when the
foreground app's GetNextEvent/WaitNextEvent returns a null event.  If the
foreground app doesn't call GNE/WNE often enough, background applications
don't get as much time.  For all intents and purposes, screen savers work as
background applications.  So in short, Finder and Word 4.0 aren't giving
enough time to background applications.

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