Subj : Thin client PC to run MS-
To   : NIGHTFOX
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sat Nov 29 2025 17:47:13

>  Lo> But for real multitasking with real MSDOS, Win 3.1 with a Windowed MSDOS
>  Lo> over it is the best for me. My exemple was: you are playing Zork over
>  Lo> MSDOS and you want to takes notes with Notepad at the same time. Desqview
>  Lo> is really a cool thing but eating all the memory.

> For multitasking in DOS, I think QEMM with DeqView was perhaps better than
> Windows 3.1, as there was no GUI to use resources.

You are correct, there was no competition really.  Only thing Windows 3.x
was better at was running Windows applications that wouldn't run under DOS.
 OTOH, any DOS programs that wouldn't run with QEMM/DV were very unlikely
to run under Win 3.x, either.


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