Re: The Manager: is it really useful?

[jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)]

In article <Aug.18.11.00.14.1993.10187@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu>
scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft) writes:

>Interesting that MultiGS has been on ccosun and no pro or con
>posts about it.  I have tried the Manager the SwitchIt demo
>and found them both to be inferior to MultiGS.  MultiGS is freeware
[...]
>I don't have as much experience with SwitchIt since I only got to toy
>with the demo (TM got a workout at my user's group), but it doesn't
>multitask.  I think I'm going to shell out the bucks for GNO before
>SwitchIt.

The nice thing about Switchit is how great it is under GNO.  In GNO 2.0
you can suspend a desktop application and return to the shell, so between
the two of them you get a really powerful package.  I routinely have finder
open, and suspend to use yankit (faster than GSHK usually) and such.
Really quite handy.  And because of SwitchIt!'s stack sharing, you can
have loads of desktop applications loaded without consuming that precious
bank 0 space!  Which is really handy under GNO :)

>-------Know what, I have had no .sig for the longest time.  Gotta
>-------remember to make one up. scraft@gum.rutgers.edu
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