Subj : Thin client PC to run MS-
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Nov 30 2025 11:23:51

>  >> 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 w
>  > better at was running Windows applications that wouldn't run under DOS. OTO
>  > any DOS programs that wouldn't run with QEMM/DV were very unlikely to run
>  > under Win 3.x, either.

> Bending the rules a bit, OS/2 rocked at running DOS programs. I ran my BBS on
> it and ran OS/2 at work to support Windows desktops and Novell servers. I coul
> have multiple DOS windows open, even VDMs with separate versions of DOS...

IIRC, I am thinking that the only programs I tried running under DV that
wouldn't work also wouldn't work under OS/2 -- or at least I never went to
the trouble to try.

I am positive I did try Simcity 2000 and it did *not* work.  Another that
I had trouble with was PC-Write and, for that matter, Wordperfect 5 for
DOS.  I never tried either of those under OS/2 but suspect that one or both
might just work.


 * SLMR 2.1a * Sheesh! You start havin' fun, and they send the lawyers!
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