Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!corton!chorus!opera.chorus.fr!mir From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: WINDOWS 3.0 On a 80286? Message-ID: <8375@chorus.fr> Date: 13 Mar 91 15:07:03 GMT References: Sender: mir@chorus.fr Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France Lines: 16 In article , 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...... You really added some much RAM and a such big disk to a 286 ? You should figure in the Guiness records book! On a 286 you can multitask Windows applications (if they are properly written) and switch between several DOS applications. When you switch to the Windows desktop, they are all frozen. -- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74 Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX