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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!slammer!stiatl!iam
  2. From: iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Why can't two full-screened DOS apps multitask???
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul29.183031.24757@stiatl.salestech.com>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 18:30:31 GMT
  7. References: <Bs3nsE.n2B@acsu.buffalo.edu> <Bs3o0L.7A@acsu.buffalo.edu> <GHENNIGA.92Jul28232642@ampere.ampere>
  8. Distribution: usa
  9. Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.
  10. Lines: 13
  11.  
  12. How come anytime I have a program running in a full screen window, it gets
  13. suspended whenever I switch over to another full screened DOS window?  Windows
  14. doesn't do this, so why should OS/2??
  15.  
  16. Confused,
  17.  
  18. Ian
  19.  
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  21. The system?  33MHz80486with64Kcache16MBof70ns |  Ian Mercado: iam@salestech.com
  22. 4x9SIMMS1MBTseng4000videoboard200MB15msIDE     --------------------------------
  23. harddriveCOM1:COM2:LPT1:onstandardportsandinterrupts |   I am NOT a signature
  24. "But it was too slow, so I re-wired it..."           | virus.  Copy me and die!
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