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From: farber@udel.EDU (Dave Farber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Multitasking
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Date: 3 Jan 88 21:55:42 GMT
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Keywords: Thanx. OS/2. 80386. etc...



I have used both Desqview and Windows 386 on my 386. Tell you what
I would do -- hold my breath a bit longer till you can get VPIX
working under SCO Xenix 386 and save your self a lot of pain. 

Desqview with the EXTRA priced 386 eem works well but it is a pain
to fine tune so that comm systems like UULINK work effectivly 
in the background. The windowing (not MS windows) protocols need
a lot of care and feeding of the schedulers in tasking environments
and the tuning is critical. 

Technically windows 386 is a much more refined product. The basic problem
I have with it is that it does not allow me to determine the ticks to
be given to individual tasks so it is hard to "custom" the repsonse.

Again given my experience I would wait till VPIX

Dave
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