Re: MacOS Client

Jim Doolittle (doolittl@uiuc.edu)
Sun, 4 May 1997 19:50:46 -0500

>At 6:13 PM -0400 5/4/97, andrew meggs wrote:
>
>As a future direction for the MacOS client, how many people would be
>interested in a faceless background app that wrote only to a file and
>didn't open any windows or appear in the applications menu? Just drop it in
>your startup items folder and forget about it...

I'd be rather concerned about performance hits with doing this. I have the
client running on a 6100/66 with a niceness of 9, but I still need to shut
it down when doing anything processor intensive.

-Jim

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