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From: vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 3.0 On a 80286?
Message-ID: <1F1Ry3w163w@mimas.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:53:35 GMT
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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......
>  
>  
>    Please, Someone tell me this isn't true!!
> 
> 
> Sean

Even if you could do it, you wouldn't want to.  Get Desqview 2.3.  It'll 
do a better job (FASTER! MORE COMPATIBILTY!), and since you're going to 
be using the com port, you'll need all the speed you can get, unless you 
have a FIFO buffered UART.

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