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From: tmh@uncecs.edu (Toni M. Hutto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Can you do graphics in OS/2 without using PM?
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.232051.6829@uncecs.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 23:20:51 GMT
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In article <5351@helios.ee.lbl.gov> kushner@ux3.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner) writes:
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>I don't know that much aboud VCPI, but from what I've read,
>it isn't very good technically.  There is no intertask protection.
>If one task crashes, it can bring the whole system down.  
>This seems to be to be unacceptable to either OS/2 or windows 3.0.
>
>-Gary


Why did Lotus go the way of VCPI?  And WHY _can't_ Windows or
OS/2 support it.  I suppose I don't mind waiting around for
Lotus 123/G, but I need to also run version 3.0...  Having
6 or 7 config.sys files right now is driving me bonkers. . .
not to mention my computer from being rebooted as I go from
program to program.  

I'm about ready to abandon windows for DESQview--if, IF it
ever shows up and IF it works with apps.
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tmh@uncecs
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Toni M. Hutto, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC