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====Multi-Mac==== Multi-Mac is another application switching utility designed specifically for the Macintosh 512K, though it is more known for its mysteriousness. Showing up sometime in late 1985, after the introduction of Switcher, and being credited as being made by ''Jwa van der Vuurst'' with a copyright by ''Aubrac Systems'', it makes over 200 direct calls to undocumented addresses in the Macintosh ROMs.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040413221517/http://homepage.mac.com/senorwences/servant_page/servant_multimac.html Multi-Mac - Macintosh Servant]</ref> This led to the accusations that ''Jwa van der Vuurst'' was merely an alias and that the program was actually from someone that worked at Apple and had significant knowledge on the Macintosh's inner workings. The app itself adds a second apple menu on the right side of the menu bar which displays all currently running application and allows switching between them. It also allows adjusting the applications' memory allocation size, disk cache and adds background multi-threaded copying similar to [[Connectix|Speed Doubler's]] and [[Mac OS 8]]'s improved copy function.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190711202715/http://school.anhb.uwa.edu.au/personalpages/kwessen/web/stories/EarlyMacStories.html#multitasking Multitasking and the Mysterious Multimac - Stories of Early Mac]</ref>
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