Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!mlord
From: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview vs Windows?
Message-ID: <605@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 16:43:23 GMT
References: <1640035@hpspcoi.HP.COM> <12238@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Reply-To: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <12238@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) writes:
>In article <1640035@hpspcoi.HP.COM>, kluksdah@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Keith Kluksdahl) writes:
>> Does anyone out there have an opinion on Desqview vs Windows?
>...
>If you simply want to task switch between DOS applications, buy DesqView.
>
>If you want an integrated, user interface, in which applications present a
>standard, menu-based interface, buy Windows. To get the most out of Windows, you
>have to junk your old DOS applications, and acquire a set of true Windows
>applications (like Excel, PageMaker, Word, etc). Sure, you can run DOS

Also, as discussed before, 

The other way to get the most out of Windows is to run Windows286 
under Desqview386 on a 386 machine.  

This gives true multitasking, with the reliable version of windows,
and also makes multitasking non-windows stuff possible.  This
combination works very well!

Cheers,

-Mark
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