Editing MultiFinder (section)

==Reception==
Upon MultiFinder's 1987 release, ''PC Magazine'' noted it for beating [[IBM]]'s competing [[OS/2]] multitasking operating system to market, and said the System with MultiFinder "isn't a true multitasking operating system, though it's much more than a context switcher".<ref name="The new seekers"/> Ezra Shapiro of ''[[BYTE]]'' in July 1988 recommended MultiFinder to those with "a huge amount of RAM and nerves of steel. I'm always edgy about the devastating crashes that can occur".<ref name="shapiro198807">{{Cite magazine |last=Shapiro |first=Ezra |date=July 1988 |title=From Shareware to Hyperware |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-1988-07_202104/page/213/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=2025-04-12 |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |pages=211-213}}</ref> The magazine's [[Jerry Pournelle]] in 1989 said that "while MultiFinder doesn't work very well yet, [[DESQView]] on a big 80386 machine certainly does".<ref name="pournelle198901">{{Cite magazine |last=Pournelle |first=Jerry |author-link=Jerry Pournelle |date=January 1989 |title=To the Stars |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets#page/n137/mode/2up |magazine=BYTE |page=109}}</ref> In 1990, ''InfoWorld'' tested the four mainstream desktop multitasking options: DESQView, OS/2 1.2, Windows 3.0, and System 6 with MultiFinder. MultiFinder was viewed overall positively for speed, ease of use, and value. Its presence halved the speed of file transfer and printing compared to the single-tasking System 6 without MultiFinder, but this was still comparable to Windows and DesqView and much faster than OS/2. These tradeoffs were seen as typical of contemporary add-on multitaskers compared to the natively architected but less friendly OS/2.<ref name="Orchestrating applications">{{cite magazine| magazine=InfoWorld | title=Orchestrating applications|url={{Google books|lzwEAAAAMBAJ|page=83|plainurl=yes}}|page=83|date=September 24, 1990}}</ref>