Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!guido
From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Last Screensaver
Message-ID: <313@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 11 May 88 11:19:52 GMT
References: <900003@zaphod> <5241@cup.portal.com> <310@piring.cwi.nl> <52703@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
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In article <52703@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>It's called Suitcase. You can dynamically open and close suitcase files to
>your hearts content. Apple should ship it with every system they build.

Aha.  I had hoped it existed.  Who's selling it in Holland?

>And even more fun, it comes with Pyro, which is as close to the perfect
>screensaver as you'll find, as an added bonus. Solving both discussions at
>once.

I have seen Pyro.  It's far too busy when it's in the same room as me
and I am not using my Mac.  My ideal screensaver would do something like
the good old Dali clock: slowly move a picture around on the screen.  Of
course the Dali clock (besides being an applicataion) needn't apply for
the job: it also changes every second :-(.
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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net