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From: a523@mindlink.UUCP (Frank Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Software Carousel
Message-ID: <605@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 00:50:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> gary writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <834@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
> Posted: 17 Oct 89 19:38:40 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Unisys Corporation, Devon, PA
> Person: Gary Barrett
> 
> There is a program called Software Carousel which acts as a simple
> context-switch, as I understand it.  You can run multiple applications
> and switch among them as needed.  (Unlike Windows/386, they just sit
> in the background, idle.)  It is supposedly a bare-bones switcher, not
> fat like Windows or as expensive either.
> 
> Does anyone on the net have experience with Carousel?  Do you like it?
> 
> I need something less than Windows and Desqview, with such a
> context-switching capability.
> 
> --
> ======================================================================= =
> Gary L. Barrett
> 
> My employer may or may not agree with my opinions.
> And I may or may not agree with my employer's opinions.
> ======================================================================= =


The Software Carousel works as advertised.  It works especially well if you
have either extra memory, or a very fast hard disk.

Frank Murray
MindLink !
[523]
---The views expressed by me ARE the views of my employer...---