Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!bridge2!ngg From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hey Apple Mac engineers, answer->MacWorld Interview Answers you. Keywords: multitasking, improvements Message-ID: <866@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 00:34:23 GMT References: <14845@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <27159@srcsip.UUCP> <21857@dcatla.UUCP> Reply-To: ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA Lines: 37 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. -- Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 3Com Corp. Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie. Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything) UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM