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Additional
Information
As shown, Servant was in many ways
ahead of its time, incorportating application switching, an
updated means of navigating the Finder, and simple resource
editing. While Andy Hertzfeld supposedly sold the publishing
rights to Apple for six figures while retaining the right to
publish the software on his own should Apple decline to
publish the software or change it substantially, Servant was
destined to live a short but exciting life. Apple purportedly did not like the way
the Finder windows worked like MacPaint, with the contents
scrolling in the background. I found it difficult to find
the icon that I needed to work with, but that is because the
drive was not originally set up in icon view; a few folders
better organizing the drive would help with
navigation. The multiple ways one can navigate the
windows, resize and customize the icons, and explore
application Resources, as well as have multiple applications
running on a System 6 Mac makes Servant a fascinating
alternative to the contemporary Finder. What Servant lacks,
however, is stability, which makes it a curiousity more than
a valid alternative. I first obtained Servant version .84
way back when, after I had upgraded my Macintosh 512K to a
512Ke with the new 128K ROM. I later found version .953 on
the internet, back when it was still available. My 512Ke now has a Macintosh Plus
motherboard in it after a college roommate accidently
destroyed the existing board. For this reason I was unable
to run Multi-Mac on any of my 68K Macintoshes. The screenshots for this web site were
created on a Macintosh Classic, booted to the built-in ROM
disk. The ROM disk is accessed by holding the
Apple-Option-X-O keys at startup. Since Servant runs under
System 6 and lower and my hard drive has System 7.1, I would
boot to the Boot Disk and run Servant from the hard
drive. There is precious little information
about Servant on the internet; hence, my motivation to
create this site. I found one site, MiCMAC, in French, that
provided a contemporary review of Servant and its
features: Run the site through Sherlock 3 for a
decent translation. Special thanks to gyounk and his
Mac512
site. I also had a MacWrite document that
reviewed Multi-Mac and Servant included on my Servant .84
and Multi-Mac disk. It was helpful in framing where the
Macintosh System Software and operating system were at that
point in time, as well as explaining some of the features.
Since I do not own the rights to this
software, please do not ask.
copyright 2002 Josh
Burker all icons, names, and
trademarks are property of their respective
owners