Subj : CMDTIME
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Robert Bull
Date : Sun May 25 2003 05:24 pm

Hello, Paul;

19 May 03 21:55, Paul Quinn wrote to Robert Bull:

 PQ> Yep, it's the one where all the hoo-ha about DOS is hell started
 PQ> from... from the DOS SHELL task-switcher thingie.  Not a multi-tasker;

Don't think I ever ran DOS 4, and at some point during DOS 5, bought a copy 
of DESQView.  I looked at a few third-party task-switchers; my favourite 
was FastFlip.  I even tried to register, but the author was uncontactable.  
When I enquired - in a local UK echo, I think - about the shareware 
multitasker VMIX, I was told it was stable enough to run a BBS, "but you 
wouldn't like it."

 PQ> I built the machine up from spares on the weekend (still got enough
 PQ> for another).  The real testing dustoff starts tomorrow.

Quite the squirrel  :-)

     Regards,

              Robert.

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