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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Multitaskers (rather long...)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 23:46:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 23:46:32 1985
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DoubleDOS hangs when run on a PC with EGA and ECD.  That was my
configuration, and I couldn't get the thing to work at all.  The customer
support people told me it would work if I set my EGA switches to emulate a
CGA display (for THIS I spent $1000 for the EGA and ECD???) There may be a
new version coming up to solve this, but SoftLogic wouldn't give me any
idea when it would be available.  It is also copy-protected with the same
crap as "Golden Common LISP 1.01" and "DBASE III 1.1", the name of which
eludes me right now, but it allows you to "install" and "uninstall" the
software to/from a floppy or hard disk.  Given the problems such methods
have when a disk is restored from a full backup, and given the relatively
low cost of the software, I was appalled that they used such a draconian
method, especially without saying so in their ads or, in my case, in person
at the recent Boston Computer Faire.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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