Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes re: why a surv. PC?
>Well, I really do need the multi-tasking features..
>About the windows multi-tasking, the bad side is that it will
>multi-task better Windows programs. Unfortunatly, you cant run more
>then one DOS programs in most Windows 95 installs i've seen. Normally
>when you leave the DOS window it will freeze until you get back to
>it.. and even in installs where for some reason the DOS window
>kept running in the background, you still couldnt do more then
>1 DOS window at the time. If you had 2, then only the current
>one would keep on working. I wander why is that? Maybe windows
>only got Task Switching for DOS tasks, or it just takes too
>many resources?
I have gleefully reformatted my last Win95 box. However, I
distinctly remember a "Background" button, visible on the
upper toolbar when the DOS box was windowed (i.e., neither
minimized nor full-screen.) If the button was "out" the
task would freeze any time the window lost focus; if "in"
the task would keep chugging along in the background.
I think the little picture on the button was something like
two overlapping rectangles. (IMO this is a flaw in WIMP
environments generally. You could spend hours trying to
figure out what some dinky icon means, when a well-chosen
word or two would make it obvious.)
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