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From: 6061204@pucc.BITNET (Joseph Hong)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Polywindows (or watch out Sidekick)
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Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 12:53:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 18 12:53:48 1986
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     I just recently bought a Quadram memory expansion board and
included free with the board was this disk labelled Polywindows.
Slightly intrigued, I decided to see what it was. I read the enclosed
instruction manual and found to my delight that Polywindows was a
memory resident ( like Sidekick from Borland ) utility package.
     Polywindows has an editor ( a wonderfully easy to use and
fast one no less ), a calculator, a notecard utility, a dialer,
a calendar with appointment book, an alarm clock, a directory
lister ( i.e. DIR ), and many other good things. It also
gives you the option of which of these utilities you want to
install.
     I opened up Polywindows and I was using it the first day.
It increased my efficiency on the PC by at least 50%. It's
that good.
     My only complaint about Polywindows is that it takes up a
bit of memory ( 10K for each included utility - approximately ).
However having the new Quadboard, this is no problem. I'm also
running it on a 256K machine and it works fine there as well.
     Watch out Borland these guys are good.
 
      Joe Hong
      CS undergrad
      Princeton Univ.
 
 
  I am in no way affiliated with the producers of Polywindows.