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From: rps@homxc.UUCP (R.SHARPLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Multitaskers
Summary: Get DESQview
Message-ID: <2683@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 15:19:45 GMT
References: <10904@cisunx.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <10904@cisunx.UUCP>, spectre@cisunx.UUCP (Robert Sillett) writes:
> I am planning to purchase a multitasking program for my PC clone
> in the very near future.  I have decided to get either DESQview or
> MS Windows.  The problem that I now face is which one to get.  
...
> To come to the point --> which is the better, DESQview or Windows 2.xx?

Get DESQview.  Windows 2.0 doesn't multitask non-windows applications very
well (hardly at all).  Certainly, something like procomm would bomb the 
window.  On a 386 with virtual 86 mode, you can get most programs to 
work but not all (believe me, I have one and both DESQview and Windows386).

DESQview does an ok job on any computer.  I have successfully multitasked 
on my AT&T 6300.  I have yet to find a multitasking system that will allow
applications to share a mouse.  There are others that I have not tried:
WendinDOS, VM386 come to mind.  Anybody have experience with these?

Russ Sharples
homxc!rps

NOTE:

The above in NO WAY reflects the opinions of AT&T.
These opinions are my own and the results of un-scientific and 
highly irregular analysis methods.