Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Re: Deskview or Windows? Message-ID: <35010019@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 23 Sep 90 23:47:53 GMT References: <1990Sep13.154000.3257@mks.com> Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 55 > Let me be more specific about what we did. We ran three tests > on both windows and desqview: > > 1. Go to DOS, run as per normal > 2. Set up 3 windows, Wordperfect, Lotus, and a database, have > at least one executing continously (say, an onscreen clock), > and switch back and forth between the three. > 3. Set up 3 windows, each running a graphics program. > > Results: > Desqview > 1. No problem > 2. No problem, clock continued to be updated even when that > window was not the active one. > 3. No problem. All three windows updated the screen, albeit slowly. > > Windows 3.0 > 1. No problem here either. > 2. Windows initiated ok but clock did not update when window wasn't > active. Had real problems switching between windows. Got > intermittent error messages that said window could not be activated > for some reason (I don't recall the exact wording) but the > message was ambigous and the manual was no help. We played around > with this a lot and eventually made some progress but we never > really understood what windows was expecting us to do here. > 3. Windows just plain refused to do this. It would not open more > than one graphics window. > > Now we are talking :-). Which clock program are you using ? The one that comes with Windows ? or a DOS breed ? In any case, even the one that comes with Windows doesn't always update on the dot. Windows is still essentially non-preamptive multi-tasking. Will do preamptive multi-tasking for DOS programs if run in enhanced mode on a 386. A DOS breed clock will probably die a miserable death. As for 3. I can't remember I've try this one yet. I've tried opening graphics window with 1024 x 768 resolution and it works fine. Will try out soon. Note that Windows 3.0 will refuse to run any graphics program with resolution > EGA in a window. So, you might need to switch to full screen mode. Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include