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From: gjh87@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gary Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why Windows can't Multitask DOS
Keywords: info
Message-ID: <3115@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jul 90 08:24:48 GMT
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In <1990Jul2.000340.27198@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> ccant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes:

>Then why don't they provide a more reasonable version of DOS along with
>windows itself.  Everything that DOS does can be done in a multitasking
Because then even fewer people would buy OS/2 and Presentation Manager
:-)

Seriously though, I  read somewhere that Microsoft *could* have made
the multitasking better , but pressure from some large corporation
worried about the future of a similar product meant that we got
Windows 3 in its current incarnation.

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> -O-  Anthony Murdoch           Prentice Computer Centre
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Gary Hill, gjh87@uk.ac.soton.cm