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From: efrethei@afit.af.mil (Erik J. Fretheim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Windowing environments
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.191641.26998@afit.af.mil>
Date: 15 Apr 91 19:16:41 GMT
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skesterk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane Kesterke) writes:

>I've been working on a Spac station at work for the past month now and I
>just love it. Before then I just had a regular PC-350 terminal. The 
>Sparc Station is like an unlimited number of PC-350's at your disposal that
>all operate at the same time. So I began to wonder how nice it would be
>to have this kind of environment on my 386SX at home.
>Now I've heard of X-windows for MS-DOS, but I also heard it's like $500.
>I was wondering, how close do OS's like MS-Windows and OS/2 come to the
>kind of an environment a Sparc station gets you. In other words, a OS that
>will allow you to open up multiple MS-DOS windows, cut-n-paste text from
>one window to another, etc. From what I understand MS-Windows will only
>open windows to MS-Windows specific programs and OS/2 will open an MS-DOS
>window but cannot multitask with MS-DOS. If anyone can enlighten me into
>an OS that can do what I described I'd really appreciate it. 
>Please e-mail your responses and if anyone's interested in a summary then
>let me know. Thanks a lot!!


I've been using MS-Windows at home for quite some time now just like a 
SPARC station.  I can cut and paste from window to window, use vi (stevie) in
multiple windows, use as many DOS windows as I want to like SUN command 
windows.  I commonly start working on one document, and then decide I need 
something from another, so I pop up procomm, get what I need off of the 
computer at work, maybe down load it for faster paging or such.  While I'm
waiting I'll pop up a game to keep myself entertained - or work on a third 
document/program.  Sometimes I have a program I have made executing in yet 
another window.  For all of the complaints I hear you can really do a lot
with windows.





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