Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ramona!tom From: tom@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Tom Salzmann) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: QEMM Obsolete? was: Windows 3.0 and QEMM Message-ID: <2024@ramona.Cary.NC.US> Date: 3 Jun 90 19:34:30 GMT References: <8020@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: news@ramona.Cary.NC.US Lines: 27 todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes: > > >will be rebooting a lot when we move between Window 3.0 and DOS > > >configurations... todd > >Why? Run the DOS apps under Windows, then you won't need all of those > >headaches with rebooting different setups. > Assuming 100% of DOS applications will run in a 3.0 window, fine. But I > doubt if that is the case. Windows 3.0 is clearly the environment of choice for running WINDOWS applications. I can't argue with that. For DOS applications, however, Windows does provide multitasking, but DesqView 386 is the easy winner where the concerns are performance and compatibilty. Windows is not good enough for me to give up DesqView. I was hoping it would be. It is slower and takes up more RAM. For running a BBS, Windows cannot share the CPU as cleanly as DesqView. Either the BBS, or the foreground window or both suffer. > This means that we can expect to see performance penalties severe enough to > make us go back to DOS now and then ....todd Yes, or DesqView if that's the case. BTW, Windows runs quite nicely in real mode in a DesqView window. Maybe that's the solution for those of us who have one or two Windows applications to deal with. -- Tom Salzmann