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From: RHOPGOOD@ucs.UAlberta.CA (Robert Hopgood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BASIC QUESTION ABOUT DESQVIEW (was WINDOWS)
Message-ID: <799@ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 13 Dec 89 23:19:45 GMT
References: <413@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <245@cvbnet.Prime.COM>
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In article <245@cvbnet.Prime.COM>, jsulliva@cvbnet.UUCP (Jeff Sullivan, x4096 MS 4-2) writes:
>I am interested in Desqview as an alternative to Windows. I have a 386
>machine and am interested in a miulti-tasking multi-window environment.
>Can I run different command "shells" (COMMAND.COM) in the seperate windows?
>How fast is it? (It's gotta be faster than Windows!)
>How easy is it to cut-and-paste between windows? (I have a MS mouse).
>Do I need to set up .PIF-like files for everything I want to run?
 
 
Check out PC MAGAZINE vol 8 num 4 Feb 28, 1989.
 
It has a very informative article about 386 multitasking operating systems.
Included are reviews about DESQview 386 and MicroSoft Windows/386 plus 3
others.  Their choses were DESQview 386, MicroSoft Windoew/386 and VM/386.
 
Robert