Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!gas From: gas@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Guerry A. Semones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MS-DOS Multitaskers Summary: Check out Desqview.... Message-ID: <5404@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 17:26:12 GMT References: <10904@cisunx.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 21 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. -- Guerry A. Semones BITNET: drogo@tucc.BITNET Information Services USENET: gas@ecsvax.UUCP, semones@dukeac.UUCP Duke University My views are despairingly mine only. Talent Identification Program "We ain't gifted, we just work here."