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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help On multitasking
Message-ID: <871@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 16:55:21 GMT
References: <314@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> <1107@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: MSDOS, Multitasking, cshell
Summary: other possibilities


>How about OS/2?

For '386 based systems, PC/MOS doesn't look too bad.  The newest
release seems to be reasonably un-buggy.  Of course, this requires
a '386 based system.  The advantage is it is a lot cheaper than
OS/2, and it does multitask present day DOS applications.  There
was supposed to be an MMU board to run PC/MOS on '286 based
systems; I  don't know if the MMU has condensed from the vaporware
stage yet.

The AT&T 6300+ with Locus' Simultask is pretty decent.  I've seen a
6300+ run up to 7 DOS windows, not all of which, though, were doing
really "hard" work.

Deskview 2.01 is another possiblity.  It's probably the cheapest
solution.  The previous versions of Deskview were too buggy to be
worthwhile.  2.01 still has some limitiations (which have been
already hashed over on the Net).  Depends on how demanding your
application is and how flexible you are.

Season's Greetings,
--Bill