Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Left in Dust? (was: Adobe Type Manager) Message-ID: <1446@esquire.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 15:24:37 GMT References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <459@amanue.UUCP> <20020@usc.edu> <1211@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <1989Sep23.005117.7490@NCoast.ORG> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 29 In article <1989Sep23.005117.7490@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >As for a better screen: the telecom window I'm using right now fills almost >the entire Mac SE screen. Okay, so where do I keep the notepad window >*around* at on here? Answer: I don't. I need a second, or a larger, screen. >(I'm not interested in color -- monochrome is absolutely fine with me.) > >One more comment: what if I want to use the notepad while I'm doing a >download? You got it -- MultiFinder. Which is absolutely impossible. Just a small side-comment: Versaterm and Versaterm PRO allow you to desk accessories during downloads even if you're not running Multifinder. I've tried this on a MacPlus and it works quite well. Versaterm has many other things to recommend it as well, one of which is its speed. Another is its price: about $79. >For a month or so I did this on my 386 box courtesy of MS Windows. I'm not >particularly enamoured of Windows -- but it *worked*. And it *worked* in one >meg of RAM. And it *worked* on a Hercules clone video board which had >sufficient resolution for me to keep a notepad window around. And it *didn't* >cost anywhere near as much as Apple wants. This is why I posted this followup. If I can save even one person from having to use Windows... -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." sbb@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!sbb | - David Letterman