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From: arsen@milkfs.itstd.sri.com (Tom Arseneault)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
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Date: 28 Jun 90 16:54:41 GMT
References: <4085@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1018@ashton.UUCP> <4100@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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In article <4100@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> iain@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>
>>In article <4085@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> iain@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>>There's been a fair bit of noise made in the media recently about the
>>>release of Windows 3.0. One MicroSoft high-flyer even suggested that
>>>EVERYONE currently running Dos would eventually run Windows 3.0. What
>>>does Windows have to offer me? 
>
>>A graphical user interface, multi-tasking, and one real cool game
>>of solitaire!   :-)
>
>  Multi-tasking? I don't think so. From what I understand Windows gives
>  you pseudo-multi-tasking but the context switching process is the
>  user! Hardly what I'd call multi-tasking. 
>
>  Iain.

   If you are running Windows Applications you get true multiTasking
in any mode. If you are using either real or standard mode you will
get context switching for nonwindows application but on a 386 machine
using the 386 enhanced mode you can multitast even nonwindows
applications and run them in a window too. As a long time Windows
hater I am ashame to admit I LOVE WINDOWS 3.0!! I have only been
playing around with it for a few days and only in real mode so far but
Microsoft seems to have fixed everthing I had complaints about and
added so much more to love that I now feel unfaithfull to DesqView my
first Love.


Thomas J. Arseneault
arsen@itstd.sri.com