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From: rap@la.excelan.com (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Multitasking on PCs
Keywords: multitasking switching, desqview, software carousel, VM386
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:34:52 GMT
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In article <1086@helps.cactus.org> jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) writes:
>Will McClatchy in Information Week, June 11, 1990, page 15 writes:
>
>  "Early users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.0 software say it will
>   destory data and crash hard disks that have not been formatted with
>   MS-DOS 4.01.  What's more, some users say the company knew about
>   the problem but has not done enough to alert them...."
>

I don't know where he (Will McClatchy) got this information, but I have
never had a data loss with Windows 3.0.  The only thing that has
happened is lost clusters from a temp file if I incorrectly terminate
Pagemaker, vi or some other program which uses temp files.  This is to
be expected considering the application was terminated before it
updated the directory.

rap.

Robert A. Pease, Novell
rap.

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