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From: joel@techunix.BITNET (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman)
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Subject: Re: Why use MS-window ?
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Date: 5 Jun 90 17:33:51 GMT
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In article <9609@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) wr
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>I should mention however that Win 3.0 does not multitask DOS Apps
>well enoungh on a 16 MHz 386sx machine with 4MB to allow MS-Kermit
>to download files in background.  Data transfers are aborted.
>But this might be caused by the Kermit Protocols requirement that
>once a packet is started to be received there can not be any pauses
>in the receipt of the packet of more than 1 sec.
>
Anyone know if the PC Unix packages that have DOS windows will let
Kermit run?  I find it hard to believe that Kermit won't run under a Unix
DOS window, but Unix is always time-slicing many processes.

-Joel
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