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From: george@shumv1.ncsu.edu (George Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Multitasking on PCs
Keywords: multitasking switching, desqview, software carousel, VM386
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.181432.6923@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 90 18:14:32 GMT
References: <4633@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> <1086@helps.cactus.org>
Reply-To: george@shumv1.ncsu.edu (George Browning)
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Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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>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've been using the beta and final releases of Windows 3.0 on a
variety of machines (at both home and at work) without any of the above
mentioned incidents.  We have had Windows 3.0 since around February.  We
have had no problems running on DOS 3.3 (and some derivatives like HP
DOS) although we needed to get updated workstation shells from Novell
for our network.

                                             - Jeff 
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| George Browning                  North Carolina State University  |
| george@shumv1.ncsu.edu                               Raleigh, NC  |
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