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From: scott@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Scott Linn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ENSEMBLE
Message-ID: <31700002@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 17:25:04 GMT
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/ hpcvca:comp.sys.ibm.pc / tinman@agora.rain.com (David Tinnyo) / 11:39 pm  Apr  9, 1991 /

>I've had GeoWorks for about 4 months now.  IT IS AWESOME.  On my
>386sx it just blows the doors off of Windows running on 33mhz 386's.
>And performance isn't the only thing:  It will actually run on a
>512K XT with acceptable performance.  Also, it is both multi-tasking
>(pre-emptive) and multi-threading.  In the draw program for example,
>you can scroll the screen in the middle of the update, it'll just
>keep going until it catches up with you.

You mention these things for GeoWorks apps, but what about DOS apps?
Can you run well-behaved dos apps in a GeoWorks window easily?  Is it
still pre-emptive?  Can I use GeoWorks to run full-screen ill-behaved
dos apps?

Unless it does these things, it is a toy.  Windows may be a little
slow, etc., but it will do all of the above (except the pre-emptive
part).

Scott Linn