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From: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Desqview
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Date: 16 Jan 91 22:46:17 GMT
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I'm using the latest release version of DESQview-386, which includes
DESQview 2.33 (I think) and QEMM 5.11.  I don't think you can do everything
you want with just 1Meg (I had 2 but went up to 4).  If I remember right, I
had a 160K and a 256K application running which left me just shy of opening
a 512K byte DOS window, before I added the extra 2Meg of memory.  Your
mileage may vary, of course.

I find DESQview to take up less memory and have less processing overhead
than windows.  DESQview is better if you're interested in multi-tasking
communications tasks, but doesn't handle swapped graphics (VGA ->) so well.
I'm quite satisfied with it.

- Jim

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