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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Desqview/X -- Opinions?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.223243.23253@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: Desqview, multi-tasking, stuff, slunge
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <mirage.716509864@camelot>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:32:43 GMT
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- In <mirage.716509864@camelot> mirage@camelot.bradley.edu (Jeffrey Hoffman) writes:
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- >I am interested in the opinions of those who have seen/used Desqview/X.
-
- >I have no prior experience with Desqview, so I would appreciate comparisons
- >with Windows. Any details, features or shortcomings would be very helpful.
-
- >Is it worth the money? Is OS/2 a better choice? More stable?
-
- I bought it when it first came out, loaded it briefly, and then pulled
- it off. I do, however, use the QEMM that came with it, which works
- very well.
-
- I found DV/X (on my machine) to be both slow and unstable. I was also
- rather disappointed that in order to get it so that it could talk to a
- UNIX box running X, I would have had to spend hundreds more dollars.
-
- OS/2 is definitely the better choice. I have also messed with it and
- found it to be much more reliable and stable. It, too, is somewhat
- slow, but this is expected to improve in the October/November time
- frame when the update package for it is released (32-bit graphics
- engine, Windows 3.1 compatibility, various performance enhancements).
- Were it me, I would go with OS/2.
-
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