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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Another county heard from
Message-ID: <18950008@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 90 18:00:12 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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Hi Norman,

Just exactly what is your system configuration like ? How much RAM,
what type hard disk, controller, speed etc.

Note that DesqView can only "multitask" in a 286 if it has true
hardware LIM 4.0 EMS. Otherwise, it can only multitask very small
programs -- which collectively occupy less than ~512K of RAM.
If your program gets too big, with LIM 3.2 hardware, DesqView will
"context switch" your programs and not "multitask". You can find
that out by watching the screen and see if it say "swapping" in the
top right hand corner when you switch from one program to another.

Personally, I don't know if Windows 3.0 does multitasking with
286 having true LIM 4.0 EMS hardware ? Any taker ?


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