Re: The Manager from Seven Hills (INFO!!)

[fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>So, the limited "Switcher" mentioned here must be Switch It! (The only
>other commercial or workable product)

It must be!  :)

>I have not seen a demo of The Manager yet, but base on the experience
>of Kangaroo, I am willing to buy it. Too bad if I buy this, there will
>be one less Procyon customer.

I hope they have a demo for it.  I have a copy of Kangaroo ( illegal ), BUT I
don't use it.  It's okay, but really in-efficient, IMO.  With some minor
modifications it can be an awesome program.  I'll have to see The Manager's
demo to decide which one to buy.  Procyon should focus on gno and its goodies (
TC2... etc. ).

>There are a few things that I am concerning:
>
>1) Switch It! is quite reliable, but nobody here yet seen The Manager.
>I wish to know how compatible it is going to be. If it is as good as
>Kangaroo, I will be one of the first to place the order.

Agreed.  I am very impressed with the SI! demo.  I hate it when it just force
me to shut down after about 10 min. though... :P

>2) The Manager, according to the press release, put all the windows of
>   different programs in one screen (ala leapFrog) - this, in my opinion
>   is not good. Unlike Mac, GS have two resolutions - just imagine having
>   Milestone 2000 running together with AppleWorks GS, or worse, running
>   DreamGrafix in SBC 3200 mode with GraphicWriter III! Switching screen is
>   a *much* better way to go!

Actually, with QD2, its okay.  I mean, it'll look okay except the color tables
will be messed up.  But DG in SBC 3200 mode might be a problem, eh?  SI! is
kind of slow when switching between programs.  I know that it has to copy some
memory, but it takes about 1.5 sec. to switch.  Jawaid: couldn't it be faster?
Or is it just slow because it's only a demo.  :)

>3) Multitasking is mentioned, but what type of multitasking? Coorporative?
>   Preemptive? What type of programs multitasks and what don't? Can we
>   choose? Can we turn it off (if speed is critical)?

I think it's probably more like Mac's system 7.  And if it can be as smooth as
system 7, then I'll be impressed and satisfied.  System 7 is stable.  My
friends IIsi don't crash anymore...  It used to crash 2, 3 times a day with
6.0.x running multi-finder.

> Thanks for any responce.

There, you got my opinions.

frank m. lin
fmlin@terapin.com