-=> Steven Horn said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "APPOSITE" on 04-24-03  18:58.....

 SH> At least you got your money's worth.:-)

Sure did! I've never regretted buying the package.
 
 GM> Talking of freebies that came with an OS, I remember using
 GM> Macintosh's MacDraw back in the late 80's. That was a powerful
 GM> little beastie!!!!
 
 GM> I wish I had something like that today!

 SH> If you were to buy an IMAC, you would.  They're not my cup of tea but
 SH> they do a beautiful job with photographs and video.

Hmmm... maybe. What I want is a package that operates with mouse
and keyboard for creating drawings.

MacDraw would work in the early Macintosh with 64k ROM and 128k
RAM, from a 720k disk that also had the OS, the "system", on it.
It's the only non-pro drawing package I've seen that could spread
the drawing over a large number of sheets, 64 IIRC.

And it was a freebie!

 SH> To be able to do that, they're eating up cycles. Mailwasher checks my
 SH> POP server every 15 minutes.  Atomic Clock has to check its atomic
 SH> clock every hour.  At the time I'm writing this, there is one task and
 SH> 54 processes active.

Yes, those would be using an internal clock to steal cycles from
the foreground task.

 GM> Exactly the same is done in DOS, for example by Thunderbyte. 

 SH> Is Thunderbyte a TSR?  Does it pre-empt?

It is actually a package. If the TSR is loaded, it will check
every time a disk is read or another ap is called. To me that
looks like routing the disk access or the ap call through the
TSR, rather than the TSR running all the time.

+++THOUGHT FOR TODAY+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with other nations--
    entangling alliances with none.
                        Thomas Jefferson
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From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
   "Queen City of The South"    34:55 S  138:36 E

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