Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: multiple task control for 386 - advice needed Message-ID: <7438@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 09:33:58 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.7438 Posted: Wed Sep 23 09:33:58 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 04:56:11 EDT References: Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 29 In article hg17+@andrew.cmu.edu (Howard Gruenspecht) writes: |I need to run several DOS tasks silmultaneously on an AT equipped |with an Intel Inboard 386 with 3MB memory. This should be possible |running what Intel calls "virtual 8086 mode", but I know almost |nothing about the control software necessary to do so. | |Desqview and PC-MOS are the only two candidates I know of. Are there others? Desqview works very well on a 386, using the package which emulates LIM memory. I believe it's called QEMM, but I don't have a copy at work. It is not totally indestructable, but it works very well for programs which are even reasonably well behaved. It has a windowed environment, and runs things like Procomm in the background. You will want to read the section on tuning carefully, but it's not all that complex to install. MicroPort sells V/386 and DOSmerge/386 which allow running multiple DOS sessions completely in protected mode. I saw this in January at UNIFORUM, along with a version of X-windows, but I don't believe it's shipping. I tried to do a comparison of V/386 and Xenix/386 at work, and was promised a Beta copy, but I never got it. If you can actually get a copy, V/386 would seem to be a good choice, since it's UNIX based and will give you additional control option. Bell is supposedly selling the Interactive port for $399, but I don't believe they're selling the DOS support just yet. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me