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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How does Win 3 multitask?
Keywords: MS Windows
Message-ID: <1990Jun1.222516.6767@world.std.com>
Date: 1 Jun 90 22:25:16 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.043448.29309@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <7397@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
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In article <7397@fy.sei.cmu.edu> rm@dx.sei.cmu.edu (Roger Moos) writes:
>I would like to know if you can run Terminal in the background doing a
>Kermit download - while
>doing something else like in a paint file or solitare etc.
>
>This would be very useful - has anybody tried this successfully on Win 3.0
>

Multi-tasking works quite nicely (for DOS).  I'm running a compile in a dos
window as I write this.  I'm using Crosstalk for Windows (I called to get
an upgrade prior to the release and the upgrade is 3.0 compatible.)  I've
done quite a bit of downloading in the background.  I've even done downloading
and compiling in the background while doing something else (like playing
solitare) in another window.  This has worked well on my PS2 model 70 (with
6 meg of memory) here at work and on my 386 SX clone (4 megs of memory) at
home.

Also, we just got the new Novell drivers in and there are versions of net3
that run in both Extended and Expanded memory.  I'm running the extended
memory version now.  One warning:  xmsnet3 failed when I tried to access
network drives from two different windows at the same time.  (One was running
a compile in the background, I was doing directory listings in the other.)

Since that failure, I've been careful to stay on my local disk while the
compile is running on network drives.  Seems to work just fine.

Bob Goodearl          goodearl@world.std.com