On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Rick C. Petty wrote:

> really play with this at all.  But if you remove the finder, you remove 
> all those important pieces of code, such as displaying finder suites, 
> that may be important.  Plus, as Mr. Kurtz said, you lose the ability to 
> load other applications.  Possibly, the ability to load and unload 
> segments correctly as well...

You don't need the Finder to launch applications, but not very many other 
Mac applications give you the user interfac to do that. E.g. I have used 
the MPW Shell to launch applications while the Finder was busy doing large 
file copies, and I'm fairly confident that I have also launched 
applications from MPW Shell when the Finder has been killed in low memory
situations.

Launching applications is an operating system function (a set of traps), 
not a function of the Finder. However the Finder is one of the very few 
applications with a user interface to do this.

Neither is the segment loader dependent on the Finder.

regards
Erik Bertelsen.