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From: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: programs crashing in Desqview
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Date: 2 Mar 90 20:35:28 GMT
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>  
>    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. . . .    
> 
>    Someone wrote to me to say that I have unrealistically high
>    expectations for being able to apply the same standards to PC's
>    as I do to workstations; that PC's are single-user *micro's*,
>    after all.
> 


 I'm a bit confused.  Are you limiting yourself to DOS on a PC?  PCs
 can of course run UNIX, just like those workstations you mention.
 And now that we have VGA, graphics capabilities are beginning to
 challenge the big boys.


Then there are, of course, all those "PCs" acting as multi-user LAN
servers.  But that's another story.  

PCs are just software containers.
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Gary L. Barrett

My employer may or may not agree with my opinions.
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