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From: dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Looking for a good 386 Multitasker
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.172133.1@lucy.claremont.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 91 01:21:33 GMT
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I'm looking for a good multitasker (commercial shareware or pd)
that will allow me the following features (or some subset
thereof)

	- Ability to send programs into the background to execute
		(a la the VMS SPAWN/NOW or Unix ...& commands).
	- Ability to switch between two or more programs in
		interactive mode (e.g., PCTeX, uEMACS and Kermit)
	- I'd prefer not to use a system that wastes memory and
		CPU on a graphic interface system (e.g., Windows)
		if I can. If I must have windows, it is important
		that windows be more X-window-like than Mac-like.
		I will not use a mouse.

I've got a 386 CPU and can go up to 16M if necessary.

-dh

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