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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Another county heard from
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.160253.3078@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Aug 90 16:02:53 GMT
References: <545@mstr.hgc.edu>
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Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <545@mstr.hgc.edu> nmiller@mstr.hgc.edu (norman miller) writes:
>Multi-tasking?  Only if you own a 386 machine.  Desqview enables
>even lowly 286 owners to run several programs at once (and
>swiftly at that)?  So what?  Desqview hasn't got quill-pen and
>card-file icons (or the darling hour-glass that asks you to wait
>for a routine which--were it one of many old public domain
>routines--would long ago have been up and running).  Desqview
>doesn't require that you wait as much as ten seconds--along with
>hard-disk noises suggestive of a Mexican school bus climbing a
>mountain--in order to read the help screen?  Again, so what? 
>Windows will put a real working clock on your screen!  Wow.

Actually, I've worked with both DesqView and Windows over the years.  Basically,
I see it this way.  Windows is a heck of a lot easier to use (especially for
those that have used Macs), and it's got a lot more neat toys.  I used to have
DesqView on my computer at home a while ago and, well, I'm much more interested
in GUI's than DOS Windowing products.  They're easier to look at all day,
and generally easier to use.  If I run a DOS window full screen I see no
real speed decrease.  Most of the speed issues running a DOS program on a 386
as a Window involve manipulating the graphics necessary to display the Dos
program as a graphic window.  DesqView probably only makes bios calls to
"draw" it's windows and these are a HECK of a lot quicker than making
the graphics calls that Windows has to make to display it's stuff.

I'm pretty happy with Windows now.  Even on some of the 1 meg 286's I've
run it on, I can deal with the speed since I get the convenience of a system
that has lots of neat toys and is easier on the eyes for me.

-- 
"Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for
 trivial pursuit."  -Harlan Ellison

Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us