Re: WINDOWS 3.0 On a 80286?

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From: Adam Mirowski
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 15:07

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In article <FD7Py1w163w@undrground.UUCP>, undrground!seanp@amix.commodore.com (Sean Petty) writes:
%%   I just encountered something very distressing in Compute! magazine. The 
%% article says that I CANNOT multitask with Windows 3.0 on a 80286? I 
%% wanted to be able to run my BBS in the backround, and other applications 
%% in the foreground. This WILL NOT work? I have 9 megs of RAM, and 150 megs 
%% of storage, on a 12 MHz AT......

You really added some much RAM and a such big disk to a 286 ?
You should figure in the Guiness records book!

On a 286 you can multitask Windows applications (if they are properly
written) and switch between several DOS applications. When you switch
to the Windows desktop, they are all frozen.
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX

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