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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Subject: Re: RE programs crashing in Desqview
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Date: 5 Mar 90 22:02:44 GMT
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In article <29312@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:

>   In principle a 386 PC should be able to run DOS jobs in a 
>   virtual 8086 and any crashes should not affect the other jobs.
>   In practice I do not know if DV does this.

I dunno' about  Desqview, but that's eggactly how VM/386 works.  If
I hit Ctl-Alt-Del (or any recognizable permutation :-) only the
foreground virtual machine resets - the others don't even know what
happened!  If the foreground machine crashes - or goes into some
kind of looping paroxysm - I can hot-key to another virtual machine
and it's still alive and kicking.

kEITHe