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- From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
- Subject: Multitasking (was Re: Msdos 5.0 Vs Drdos 6.0)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.155140.11352@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <SKNKWRKS.92Dec11221402@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:51:40 GMT
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- From article <SKNKWRKS.92Dec11221402@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>, by sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter):
- > In article <724113082.F00003@misgate.gmi.org> Chuck.Johnston@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Chuck Johnston) writes:
- >>I loaded Windows 3.0 onto my machine--for about one day... I would
- >>like to be able to operate my comm. software in a real multitasking envi-
- >>ronment, but I'll find something else to make it happen.
- >
- > Get DESQview--it works great with DR DOS and allows you to
- > preemptively multitask on just about any system. I have a 286-12 with
- > 2 megs RAM, and DV allows me to run a BBS in the background while
- > reading QWK packets, doing file management, or whatever in the
- > foreground.
-
- I will second that. I run DESQview/386 on a 386SX with MS-DOS 5.0. I
- can download in my comm. program (and watch the byte count increase in
- a little window) while doing something else in another window. I can
- run half a dozen programs in different windows, most of them only
- waiting, but at least the comm. program and one other is active.
-
- Windows is good for applications that run only in Windows. And for
- that, Windows 3.1 is way ahead of Windows 3.0.
-
- Marty
- marty@hoqaa.att.com hoqaa!marty
- Martin B. Brilliant (Winnertech Corporation)
-