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From: smsmith@hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
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Subject: Re: LOOKING-----For a good multi-tasker
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Date: 14 Apr 91 00:30:44 GMT
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s907396@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Eugene Mok (Miramar)) writes:
>6600arac@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Wolf) writes:
>
>>I'm looking for a good multi-tasker to run on 386 series machines.
>
>I would have to recommend Desqview 386 from Quarterdeck Office Systems.
> [deletions]
>And if you use Windows 3 applications Desqview can run Windows 3 in real
>mode in a window.(ummm that's Windows 3 in a Desqview window :) Personally
>I haven't tried this since my Win 3 is now sitting on my bookshelf quietly
>waiting for the next time I play solitaire. 

You can run Win 3 in standard mode under Desqview.  Since I only use
Windows for "fun" stuff (solitaire, soundblaster music files,
winfract, paint, viewing .bmp pictures, etc) I use Windows in
standard mode and use Desqview to multitask my dozen other 
applications alongside Windows.   It works flawlessly.

If you use mostly DOS apps, and only use a couple of Windows apps,
then RUN (don't walk) to your nearest sto--...to the Computer Shopper
and find Desqview 386 for $110 and buy it!!!

One note about Windows under Desqview:  If you try to run Windows
in a higher resolution than VGA, when you switch out of Windows
then go back into it the screen will be messed up.  All you need
to do then is zoom something full screen then rezoom it back and
you'll get your picture back.  Thus if you like Windows in
800x600 or 1024x768, you can do this but you'll need to refresh
your screen if you exit out of Windows then reenter it.

>
>Unless you use mostly Windows 3 applications then I'd have to say Desqview 
>is for you. 

Absolutely.  It's amazing what QEMM and Desqview can do!  The
latest version of Desqview comes with 3 things:

1) QEMM--probably the best expanded memory manager on the market.
2) Manifest--read the recent review in PC Mag.  This is a GREAT
   system analyzer.
3) Desqview--DOS multitasker.

>
>>Also, I'd like to be able to download files in the background.  If I
>>have to, I'll download to floppy, but I want to download while I
>>have a solution to my program typed in.  Tks.
>
>No probs in that at all...

I agree.  I do this for HOURS every day.  (I just got my computer
6 weeks ago and since I only have a 1200 baud modem it's taking
me a while to get all the .gif files and .snd files I want. :)

To give you an idea of what Desqview can do, here's what I was
doing the other day (note: I have a 386-33 with 4 MEGs RAM):

1) formatting 5.25 floppy in drive a:
2) formatting 3.5 floop in drive b:
3) running a virus check on my hard drive (several thousand files)
4) downloading a binary file from the net
5) running an "open file" program to keep tabs on my files
6) running another app in a foreground window (can't remember which one)

...and I was doing all of these AT THE SAME TIME!  I had them in
different windows, and could easily switch from one to the other,
make them all non-contiguous or overlap one another, or all
full screen...etc., etc.

Steve Smith
smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu