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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
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Date: 5 Jun 90 19:44:48 GMT
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In article <1595@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott) writes:
>ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>
>>I still don't understand exactly what MW 3.0 has to offer with respect
>>to protected mode applications.
>
>>Given a 386 system and Windows 3.0, what else do you need to develop
>>and run protected mode applications using more than 640K and 
>>linear address space (no 8086 segmented memory).
>
>OS/2 with 8Mb RAM. <= For Development System.  Forget Windows and MS-DOS. 
>Develop even your DOS apps. in this environment.
>
That was not really the point.  

From the adds and reviews of MSW 3.0,
I had the impression that the most pressing limitations of DOS
(Multitasking and > 640K) would be gone, at least for 386 systems.

Is this true?  Can I program Windows applications using more
than 640K (EMS doesn't count)?  What compilers do I have to use (at
what cost)? Can protected-mode apps be multitasked?

Is a PC + MS Windows 3.0 the poor-person workstation?