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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:08:34 GMT
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- Frank R. Dana Jr. (danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
- : |>
- : |> It's funny how Amigoids love to assume that "Only Amiga Makes It Possible".
- : |> I routinely run several command line sessions, a game, and the Windows
- : |> (or OS/2) desktop, each in its own screen on a PC with VGA.
- :
- : [...]
- :
- : Oh, right. I remember now. Windows does that silly full-screen-mode app switch
- : thing that nobody ever uses. It takes FOREVER to switch between those screens!
- : I prefer being able to drag ProPage halfway down the screen and still be able
- : to see what I was doing while I search for a missing file in a Shell window
- : (which I did yesterday..)
-
- It takes ZERO time to switch from the Windows (or OS/2) GUI screen to
- a full-screen DOS (or OS/2) session, unless you are running Windows on a 286
- or below.
-
- :
- : =======Amiuser============Frank R. Dana, Jr.============Doc Ami=======
- :
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- | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
- | Drummers do it... | Burlington, MA USA | in my book of memories. |
- | ... In rhythm! | jerry@msi.com | -- Guns N' Roses |
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