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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.
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	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.