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From: panon@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 PM vs. Amiga
Summary: probably
Keywords: OS/2, PM
Message-ID: <8785@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 04:40:46 GMT
References: <282@cbmger.UUCP>
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Reply-To: panon@staff.ucs.ubc.ca (Paul-Andre Panon)
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In article <282@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>
>Is there a way under PM (please not by hacking and bypassing PM) to switch
>to another display page? And if your video adaptor provides only one,
>is the contents of the PM desktop saved and restored when switching
>back to another task? 
>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel      //     E-Mail to 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany      \X/      rutgers!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

I remember reading a long time ago that OS/2 had something called screen groups
where more than one program could be running on a particular screen. Due to the
fact that this runs in protected mode, I am sure the OS saves the screen
(although it might have to swap to disk to accomplish this) when you switch
from one screen group to another. Screens would of course not be draggable,
only flippable. I have not seen this in action and so should not comment on
preformance issues (but I don't think it would be too swift unless you had a
386 DX).

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