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From: gas@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Guerry A. Semones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Multitaskers
Summary: Check out Desqview....
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Date: 13 Jul 88 17:26:12 GMT
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My advice is to check out Desqview.  NOTE: I have NEVER used Desqview
and so this is NOT an endorsement.  BUT, I have used Windows (v.1 and 2)
and do not recommend Windows for the following reasons:
1. You cannot run NON-Windows programs within a window.  Turbo Pascal
MIGHT work, but if you compile any program that does screen I/O it
would probably blast Windows and hang the system.  That's no good.
If your application is NON-Windows, then windows switches itself out
of RAM, clears the screen and brings up your application.  This will
effectively cancel out easy-taskswitching and definately rules out
multitasking of any type.  Desqview on the other hand will allow any
compatible program (well-behaved) run in a window and be multitasked.
Windows is really for people with Windows applications.
2. Desqview will probably make better use of you EMS.  Note *probably*.
 
Again, not an endorsement as much as a be careful about Windows.
-- 
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