Multifinder under Unix! A/UX 2.0 Desktop PICT

[Chris Lishka programmer at large]

jason at cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:


>  Below is a uuencoded PICT file showing what Multifinder looks 
>like running under A/UX 2.0. The picture is wider than 8 inches
>so some programs, like SuperPaint 2.0, truncate it. Other 
>programs, like MacDraw 1.9.6, crash or hang. At least two
>programs I know of, MacDraw II and Apple's PICTViewer, work
>fine.

>    ---Jason
>-----

The April 1990 (i.e. latest) issue of Byte has a sidebar on A/UX 2.0
(page 113).  It contains the following quote about A/UX and MultiFinder:\

	Note, however, that multiple tasks under MultiFinder will
	not run reliably in conjunction with A/UX.  According to
	Apple's product managers for A/UX, the Unix preemptive
	schedular can "bring down MultiFinder."

This seems to imply that MultiFinder can only run one task at a time
under A/UX.

					.oO Chris Oo.
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