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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 13:55:48 EDT
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- From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Multitaskers
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- In answer to Michael Shalev's inquiry about multitaskers:
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- OS/2 is much the more elegant of the alternatives you mention, but 4
- megs of RAM is only marginally enough and would create quite an
- unsatisfactory installation. With memory costs in the US at $30-35
- (mail order) per meg, upgrading to 8 megs is not an onerous expense,
- but I don't know whether that is the case in other countries. I am
- very happy using NB, my communications program and LBase (a CD-ROM
- text concordance program) under OS/2, but I have much more than 4 megs
- of memory. OS/2 also requires 15 to 30 megs of hard disk space
- (depending upon what services you install), although some of that can
- be recouped by removing DOS and Windows from the disk after you have
- achieved a stable system configuration.
-
- Given an unchanged hardware platform, DV/X is probably the most
- practical of the alternatives. It will multitask DOS apps with
- considerable stability, enables communication in the background, gets
- along swimmingly with "only" VGA graphics and uses less machine
- resources than OS/2. It is also considerably faster than Windows,
- which is not really a good choice if you want primarily to multi-task
- DOS applications (although 3.1 is some improvement in that regard).
-
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