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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Ms-Dos Source
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.114733.4641@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 22 Apr 91 11:47:33 GMT
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resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick) writes:


>I don't mean to flame anybody, but I have been hearing on the net and 
>otherwise, that the 80286 doesn't support true multi-tasking, and grow
>tired of the mis-information about it.

What you are saying here is correct, but...

there are many programs (all that write directly to the screen)
that won't run in the background on a 286. On a 386 they all work
fine with DESQview 386. I can even run a graphics programs together
with a programs that writes to the screen in text mode and have
both of them on the screen at the same time. And both are running!

This is definitively impossible on a 286.
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