Re: Multi-tasking with Windows and WP 50

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From: Terry Stockdale
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 01:42

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Bartholomew_Siemens@mindlink.bc.ca (Bartholomew Siemens) writes:

> office has a 386, then Desqview will multitask using the extended memory
> already on board. I'm not totally sure of the current prices on Desqview, QEM
> and expanded memory, but feel that the functionality would be the first topic
> in a business office, and this program definitely does this.
> 
>     Before everybody jumps down my back for putting Windows down, let me say
> that I like Windows for what it is designed ... ease of use and cosmetic
> reasons, but I prefer Desqview when I'm trying to get some work done.
> 
I'm running Windows 3.0 and trying to multitask a bulletin board in 
background.  Is Desqview any FASTER???  If anything is going on in either 
session, the other slows down dramatically.  I'm running a Zeos 386sx-16, 
4megs memory.

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Subject: Re: Multi-tasking with Windows and WP 50
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