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From: mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Multi-Tasking wanted ? (Was : A different View  .... OS/2 ... UNIX)
Message-ID: <302@gvgspd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 15:24:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 15:24:56 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 01:28:42 EDT
References: <494@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <961@looking.UUCP> <498@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <2440@drivax.UUCP> <1740@rti.UUCP> <212@slxsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrk@gvgspd.UUCP (Michael R. Kesti)
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <212@slxsys.UUCP> jpp@slxsys.UUCP (John Pettitt) writes:
>The user may not want the background task to keep on running - but
>they do want access to other tasks without the up to 5 min load times
>associated with most dos applications. 

John-
	I would be *very* interested to know what program (and the system(s)
upon which it it was run) that takes "up to 5 min" to load.  I just can't
believe there are any.  Perhaps it feels like that long, sometimes, but you
fail to indicate any exageration here!


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