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From: finfrock@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Scott Finfrock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Deskview or Windows?
Message-ID: <1050@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 13 Sep 90 20:24:11 GMT
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Reply-To: finfrock@ncis (Scott Finfrock)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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In article <8000080@m.cs.uiuc.edu> faiman@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>    Would anyone care to send me comments about the pros and cons of
>Quarterdeck's Deskview 2.2 vs Microsoft's Windows 3.0 on a 386?
>
We use Deskview 2.26 on a pair of PS/2 70's.  We bought a copy of
Windows 3.0 (for another machine) and tried it on the 386's.
We didn't like it very well.  It was pretty but it seemed much
harder to set up and use then Deskview.  It could be that it just
has a longer, steeper learning curve but in any event it
exhausted my patience and I kind of gave up on it.  In particular
we had problems running in background and switching between
graphics windows (or for that matter doing anything with
graphics windows).

Windows does have a much more powerful graphical user interface
(icons etc) and in general I think it has a lot of promise but
I think I will wait to see the next version.


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					  -Scott Finfrock-