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From: eagle@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ENSEMBLE
Keywords: ensemble,geoworks
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Date: 5 Apr 91 14:51:30 GMT
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In article <160277@felix.UUCP> bieber@felix.UUCP (Doug Bieber) writes:
>Graphically, it looks nicer than Windows 3.0.  However, I haven't seen a
>demo of this product, yet.  Has anybody tried this windowing package?
>Opinions?!?  How does it compare with Microsoft Windows.  

Doug,
  I've used Ensemble.  I have a 640K 8086 machine (with 28ms hard
drive).  Ensemble was MUCH faster (very noticable difference) than
Windows 3.0.  I like the File Manager in Ensemble better than Windows,
because it seemed faster (seemed? it WAS faster).  From what I
understand, Ensemble uses a preemptive multitasking kernel (I did notice
that I could launch multiple things at the same time, and that I could
effectively write a paper in the word processor while doing things by
modem at 19200 baud.  Overall, I like GeoWorks and wish I had the money
to purchase it!

Daniel
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