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From: blowfish@triton.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 3.0 On a 80286?
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.205047.23691@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 20:50:47 GMT
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Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <FD7Py1w163w@undrground.UUCP> undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes:
>  I just encountered something very distressing in Compute! magazine. The 
>article says that I CANNOT multitask with Windows 3.0 on a 80286? I 
>wanted to be able to run my BBS in the backround, and other applications 
>in the foreground. This WILL NOT work? I have 9 megs of RAM, and 150 megs 
>of storage, on a 12 MHz AT......
>Sean

Doesn't matter how much memory you've got- it goes as follows:
Minimum 8086 and 640K to run in 'real' mode
Minimum 80286 and 1Mb to run in 'standard' mode
Minimum 80386 and 2Mb to run in 'extended' mode
(extended is also called '386 enhanced' mode)

Multi tasking of non-wondows applications with windows applications requires
extended mode. 
(note: its not >real< multi-tasking, just a cheap time-slicing technique)
You should be able to multi-task multiple windows only applications in
standard mode.

rON. (blowfish@triton.unm.edu!ariel.unm.edu)
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