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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: programs crashing in Desqview
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Date: 12 Mar 90 22:33:00 GMT
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  doug@ozdaltx.UUCP (Doug Matlock) posts...

>I must disagree with the DESQview bashing that has occurred on the net
>recently.  While I do not use DESQview in a user environment, we are
>developing DESQview specific applications at work.  DESQview has performed
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>admirably and I will continue to develop successful applications in
>it.  

 I think if Doug reads his posting he'll see the flaw in his complaint,
 but I've highlighted with "^^^" to help.

 *Nobody* is questioning that Desqview runs applications WRITTEN FOR IT
 perfectly well.  The manual goes into considerable detail about how
 to write "Desqview aware" code.   And this is great if you are writing
 in assembler or have other means to control the way your programs allocate
 and use system resources at runtime.  

 MY complaints about Desqview are compeletely orthogonal to this.   I'm
 talking about running completely "Desqview oblivious" commercial apps
 or programs I wrote using C compilers which do whatever they want to
 at runtime.   

                                                        ---Peter