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From: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: RE programs crashing in Desqview
Message-ID: <596@althea.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 14:20:21 GMT
References: <48e591a9.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi)
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Organization: Shakedown St. Public Access Unix - New Brunswick, NJ
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In article <48e591a9.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:
> 
>   Are multi-task environments on PC's just talking dogs?   Are
>   they an idea that the PC world is just not ready for?  PC's
>   were designed as single-user devices.   Both the hardware and
>   the operating system were designed for single programs which
>   own the machine. 

Ouch. Please don't tell my 386 running UNIX or my 5 locally attached
users this. Also please don't mention it to the users on my Novell LAN
that access the 386 through the TCP Gateway. I told them they could all
use it because it was multi-tasking...

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Dewey Paciaffi
eddjp@althea.UUCP