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From: jsilva@cogsci.berkeley.edu (John Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DESQview - who makes it?
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Date: 22 Feb 89 01:46:32 GMT
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In article <24009478@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>And by all reports on the DESQVIEW conference on Fidonet, v2.24 is rotten to
>the core, and people should stick to v2.21 or v2.22 until Quarterdeck comes
>out with fixes to the MAJOR bugs introduced by 2.24.
>
>Disclaimer: I am running 2.22, and haven't seen 2.24 myself....
>
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I sent in my $60 to upgrade from 2.01 to 2.24, and haven't been at ALL pleased.

There are indeed major bugs in 2.24, particularly with regard to VGA handling.
I can no longer run VGA programs which do not reset the palette, as 2.24
seems to munge the default palette.  All in all, 2.24 was a waste of $60.

If Quarterdeck does not offer free upgrades to a bugfixed version, I urge
everyone to seriously reconsider purchasing one of their products on the basis
of lousy customer support.  Spending 1 hour on the phone with them (long
distance at MY expense, half of which was spent waiting for a tech support
person) to fix one of THEIR bugs is not my idea of constructive use of $$$.

-J.
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