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Article #41152Re: 4DOS with DESQview on a 286, anyone?
From: Jeff Bakke
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 11:53
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 11:53
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In article <28718@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@pepsi.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) writes:
>4DOS sounds like a good replacement for COMMAND.COM for single user
>systems. Can anyone even think of why one would want to use it with
>DESQview, since DESQview handles memory completely and the advantage of
>4DOS may not be recognized?
>
>iNDRA | indra@amdcad.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445
> | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra
> | MS 167; Box 3453; Sunnyvale, CA 94088
Well, I use both and the big advantage is that when I work in a dos shell
system, I can still use aliases and the command line advantages of
4DOS. I suppose there would be other advantages though...
Although 4DOS does take more memory away from Desqview than 3.3 DOS, its
still less than dos 4.0.
Jeff Bakke
bakke@plains.NoDak.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogicse!plains!bakke From: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 4DOS with DESQview on a 286, anyone? Message-ID: <3094@plains.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 90 11:53:54 GMT References: <28718@amdcad.AMD.COM> Reply-To: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 19