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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Beginners questions
Message-ID: <284e430b@ralf>
Date: 6 Jun 91 14:13:31 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
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In-Reply-To: <1991Jun4.021835.24916@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <1991Jun4.021835.24916@serval.net.wsu.edu>, msmith@proton.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) wrote:
}1.  Will DESQview 386 allow me to run 8 dos programs that need 640K apiece
}    all at once?  Memory resident?  All actually executing?
}2  That is IF I have 8 Meg?
}3  I guess that I want true multitasking.  Will DESQview do it?

Yes to all of the above.  I set most of my programs to be suspended while
in the background, but that is my choice--they could just as easily continue
running and wasting CPU time.

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