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From: reeses@milton.u.washington.edu (Feltch Master)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ENSEMBLE
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.075307.7351@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 07:53:07 GMT
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In article <31700002@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> scott@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Scott Linn) writes:
>/ 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
>
>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?
Can't run DOS and Ensemble both, with switching...you drop Ensemble when
you want to run a DOS app, end type exit to jump back in...
>
>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).
>
Well, it is a little more than a toy, if you consider it just a very nice
looking integrated software package...version 2 looks to be promising.
>Scott Linn
Art Taylor


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