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From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Multitask/multiuser environment for MSDOS available
Summary: AAAAAARRRRGH!
Message-ID: <7988@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 89 14:11:03 GMT
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Reply-To: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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   Unless you've got a lot of time to waste, don't bother with VMiX. It
has some neat features (multitasking, a 33-line CGA mode, etc.), but
they aren't very useful unless the rest of it works... it seems to make
no attempt to keep processes from writing to the screen on top of each
other, even when told that the new process needs exclusive access to the
screen. Furthermore, it has a tendency to simply lock up and go away,
requiring a cold restart! So far, the longest I've gotten it to run is
one minute.
   So far I haven't had a lot of time to fool with it, so I'm giving it
the benefit of the doubt and assuming that I'm doing something wrong.
Anybody have any experience with it?
-- 
James W. Birdsall  jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU  jwbirdsa@pucc.BITNET
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