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From: levin@bbn.COM (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: support for older machines & Re: MultiFinder RAMDisks
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Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 13:47:51 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 13:47:51 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 04:49:35 EST
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Reply-To: levin@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Joel B Levin)
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In article <5488@oberon.USC.EDU> kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) writes:
:
:Whether it is MultiFinder that is the hog or the combination of Multifinder
:and the System, it is a fact that Hypercard can run under the Finder, but
:Hypercard cannot run under Multifinder and remain fully functional.

Please don't infer from the fact that they are giving you a lot of
software with the machine the notion that you have to be able to use
it all at once.  When I got my 128K I got macwrite, macpaint, and the
system with it -- but I couldn't use it all at once.  Until, that is,
I got upgraded to 512K and Switcher.  I didn't hear anyone complain
then.

Hypercard is useful for a lot of things, and the utility of
Multifinder should be obvious.  If you want to use Hypercard under MF,
yes, you'll need more memory.  Hypercard remains just about as useful
without, however.  Multifinder remains useful (I hope - I haven't got
it yet) for other smaller applications I use a lot, I just can't run
them with Hypercard until I get more memory.

I see what you are complaining about, and I can't deny your right to
do so; however IMHO your complaint is pretty thin.

	/JBL

PS I also think you were overly sensitive to say the least to the
previous response.

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