Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!wdh
From: wdh@linus.UUCP (W. Dale Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: DESQview v2.1 + QEMM/386 (I know it ain't MS-Windows/386)
Summary: anyone familiar with this one?
Keywords: multitasking,interprocess communications
Message-ID: <41925@linus.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 14:57:08 GMT
Reply-To: wdh@faron.UUCP (W. Dale Hall)
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms
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Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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I realize this is probably the wrong net.group to take this question
(if anyone has a more relevant target, please educate me), but it
seems closest to the situation I'm running.

I have a PS/2 model 70 (16MHz 80386 + 1MB RAM + 70MB disk) and
(separate location) a model 80 (params unknown, cause I haven't really
looked all that hard at the machine). I have a couple of Quarterdeck
utilities (?) running, namely QEMM/386 expanded memory manager, and
DESQview v2.1 (which makes windows capable of "simlultaneous" virtual
8086 operation, with user-definable allocation of time slices).

The main thing I'm wondering is whether anyone else is at all familiar
with these products. The actual technical problem I have is one of
trying to break a simulation down into separate pieces, which run in
separate windows, and talk to each other (say, the event generation
code may exist in a window, event handling in another, and statistical
compilation in a third). My guess is that I would need to do a lot of
this stuff down in assembler, but I'm not really certain it's doable,
being relatively unfamiliar with assembly-level tricks of the trade.

						Dale.