Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MS-DOS Multitaskers Keywords: windows desqview Message-ID: <2271@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 14 Jul 88 15:54:23 GMT References: <2626@bgsuvax.UUCP> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16 In article <2626@bgsuvax.UUCP> bear@bgsuvax.UUCP (Michael D. Bear) writes: }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. An 8088 is a little underpowered for DESQview, but Windows would be even worse because it runs in graphics mode. Program swapping is unneccessary if you have EEMS memory, as DESQview will task-switch among more than 640K of programs, something Windows can't do. In addition, the equivalent of the new Windows 2.10 driver to use 50K of exTENDed memory on 286 and 386 machines has been available to DESQview users for over a year. I'm typing from a machine running 60K of DESQview in exTENDed RAM since last July. -- {harvard,uunet,ucbvax}!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=- AT&T: (412)268-3053 (school) ARPA: RALF@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU |"Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make. FIDO: Ralf Brown at 129/31 | Tact means not noticing them." --Arthur Schnitzler BITnet: RALF%B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA -=-=- DISCLAIMER? I claimed something?