Servant, an application written by one of the original members of the
Macintosh team, was released to provide Macintosh 512Ke and Plus users
the abilty to run multiple applications at the same time and to switch
between open applications; to delve into the workings of resources
that make up an application, a System INIT, or a Desk Accessory and
modify its icon or PICT resource from the desktop; and to navigate the
Finder in a more sensory manner.
See [Servant Homepage][1].
Note: This archive contains the following versions: 0.79, 0.84 and
0.951.
The first download contains some corrupted archives. It is easy enough
to get good replacement copies of those and also other versions from
elsewhere. However versions up to at least .89 have an expiry date
(long gone). Versions from at least .95 do not have an expiry date.
There seems little point in archiving these versions so I have
uploaded the most recent one I could find (version .953) - see second
download which is a DiskCopy 4.2 image compressed with Stuffit 4.
A [circa-1987 bound manual for Servant][2] is preserved at bitsavers.
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
[1]:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040413223524/http://homepage.mac.com/senorwences/servant_page/servant_servant_intro.html
[2]:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/mac/Servant_A_New_Shell_for_the_Macintosh_1987.pdf