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From: baileyc@tramp.colorado.edu (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DESQView - some questions
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Date: 15 Mar 91 18:24:38 GMT
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I have a 286-16 machine with 40 MB hard drive, hercules graphics, 1MB
memory, and 512K expanded memory.  Right now I use the expanded for my
cache, and PCKwik stuff.  I am considering useing DESQView for multi-tasking.
I run the following programs regularily (everyday, or at least once a week):

Multi-Edit editor
Telix terminal comm program
MASM assembler
Codeview
WordPerfect 5.1
Quattro Pro
Archive programs

I also have occasion to run C compilers, Harvard Graphics, and in the future,
(once I get a coprocessor) AutoCAD release 10.  

Can DESQView handle all of these things, and if so, if I want to have the
first four in the list basically active at all times, how much memory do
I need?  MASM can just be a DOS window of like 512K.  Telix needs about 220K
as I use it, and Multi-Edit needs at least 250K, but I can reserve some 
expanded memory for it's use if I find I need more than that.  Will this work?


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Chris Bailey :: baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU :: University of Colorado Boulder
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