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From: halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Desqview question!
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Date: 17 May 91 14:54:11 GMT
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ys@wam.umd.edu writes:

>       Has anyone tried running a BBS in the background of Desqview?

Yes.  I run Waffle and process news and mail concuurently.  Typically,
the 'bbs' runs while I use a second copy to read news and mail, while
a cron task processes a full news feed and mail forwarding.  Another
partition or two might contain text files for cut-and-paste, or QuickC.

>       I have never used Desqview before, so any help would be appreciated...
> Hopefully it is better than Win 3.0 in multitasking dos programs...

Well, around here, folks might be prejudiced.  There will be some degradation
depending on types of applications, disk i/o, etc., but it's workable.  Plan
on a lot of memory, using a pretty hefty cache, and a 386DX.   The drives
should be pretty quick, also.  Take advantage of things like TAME, DVKPOLL,
etc., that can be used to fine tune your setup.  In a gross generalization,
when doing this sort of thing, more and faster is better.

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