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From: gritz@homxb.UUCP (R.SHARPLES)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: QuarterDeck's DESQVIEW !
Message-ID: <1761@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 01:28:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: homxb.1761
Posted: Tue Jul  8 01:28:28 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jul-86 05:16:12 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Keywords: Feedback Needed

I have just finished fooling around with desqview, and i was not 
really impressed.  It does do multitasking in the true sense of the 
word so you could be downloading data from a mainframe in one window and 
doing something else in another.  But it does this by allocating "ticks"
to each window: there are 18 ticks a second and if a background window gets
nine of them then each dos process will slow by one half (if there are two 
processes running).  I think this is how it works, I only fooled with it
for about an hour.

One thing that really annoyed me was the interface, Desqview wants you to
run all applications from a list of "installed" software.  It then opens up a 
window and runs the application.  DOS is one of these applications.  If you
run DOS from Desqview and then in DOS run a program with graphics (like Xtree)
the program will try to over-write the Desqview graphics.  The results are 
an unpredictiable mess.  Usually the process hung and you had to reboot from 
hardware.  

Also I have a 6300 with 640K and was unable to run both PCWrite and Xtree
with out one process or the other hanging (requiring reboot).  I will play
with it some more but I am going to definately check out MS Windows.  I have
also seen a reference on the net to something called Polywindows that someone
received with a board.  If anyone else has experience or advice to offer, I
would be very interested.

Russ Sharples
homxa!gritz

My comments in no way reflect the opinions of my employer.