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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview and Windows
Summary: Desqview 386 overhead
Message-ID: <2914@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 90 21:12:34 GMT
References: <13233@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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In article <13233@shlump.nac.dec.com>, reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
> 
> >5. Predicted stability (Are there major changes coming soon,
> >     e.g., Motif compatible Windows?)
> 
> Rumor is an Motif/X-windows version of DESQview by the end of the year.
> 
	No rumor. They were showing it at PC Expo. It was called
Desqview-X. Maybe the timetable is a rumor, but they were saying
September.
	I wish they would put out an interim product that does the popups
in graphics mode, so it doesn't screw up some VGA screens in background
temporarily (it screws up, it restores when the window goes back to
active. Ugly, but nothing serious.)

> >5. Demands on resources
> 
	Comparing my system without QEMM (optimized) to an optimized
configuration with a Desqview Window, the system overhead of Desqview on
my system came to -23Kb (that's negative 23K - 23K more than I had
without it - the amount that LOADHI'd exceeded the program size by that
amount.  I heard MS Windows takes up to 80K and doesn't LOADHI, so
Windows can be stuck with 440K unless they are tailored (rewritten) 
to take advantage of Windows memory management.
~.

of Windows memory
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 5.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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