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From: demarco@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Vince Demarco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using QEMM-386 v5.0; problems with Windows, etc...
Summary: QEMM and Windows
Keywords: Quarterdeck, QEMM, Microsoft, Windows, 386
Message-ID: <2606@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 22:40:54 GMT
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In article <90070.225325RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I read somewhere that Microsoft poeple themselves runs Windows 286 with 386-
>MAX. DesView & Windows don't cohabit peacefully....

I'm running Windows 286 in a DV 386 window with no problems, I've never had
a crash running anything in DV (in a window) AS LONG AS YOU START ALL THE
GRAPHICS BASED PROGRAMS FIRST, (Most crashes could be avoided, I think by
telling DV that the program is not well behaved, but then it starts the
program in full screen mode if you have anything else that IS well behaved
in another window...  maybe it's just me...  I'm running DV 2.25 with QEMM
4.23 on a 386 with 640K conventional, 384 shadow, and 2 Megs extended)
And even if a graphics program IS started after a text, it usually runs
without a hitch, but once in a long while, the graphics card changes modes, and
there's nothing I can do to get DV to reset itself to a sane state, short of
Alt Q Y and restarting DV (screen blanks when switching between programs
and although, DV is STILL running, you can't do anything, cuz the card
is off in never-never land- I've had this happen with a real Herc graphics
as well as ATI VGA cards...  anyone else?)

Me