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From: beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Running TCP/IP Software under MS Windows
Summary: Windows/386 provides a time-slicing solution
Message-ID: <430@dev386.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 18:02:35 GMT
References: <460@msn005.misemi> <535@ftp.COM>
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City
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If you have 80386 machines available, you may find the Windows/386 offers a
much better solution.  Windows/386 does time-slice, and you can start a full
scale "DOS in a window" session and load your memory-resident drivers there.
On the down-side, you may need to have two megabytes of memory available to do
this (we use four megabyte machines here).

In general, Windows/386 will let you do anything in a window (regarding DOS)
that you wish.  The only program that we have been able to find that cannot
run in a window is SoftermPC, a communication package which seems to tie into
almost every interrupt on the machine.  Just for fun, I tried to run a video
game in a window -- worked fine... much to my suprise!

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