Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!bear From: bear@bgsuvax.UUCP (Michael D. Bear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MS-DOS Multitaskers Keywords: windows desqview Message-ID: <2626@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 11:45:51 GMT Organization: Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403. Lines: 8 I have used Desqview, Windows, Gem, Doubledos, and the PD programs Hotdos and Tripdos. The only ones that do a reasonable job of multitasking are Windows and Desqview. Windows works only with windows-based applications, but Desqview will work with almost anything. It will run them in a window, or full screen, and multitask either way. I often run Zmodem in the background, while I do something else. In short, I strongly recommend Desqview, but it will be slow on a 8088 machine. Program swapping is almost instantaneous if you have a Ramdisk in expanded (EMS) memory, too.