sac90286@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kubla Khan) (08/05/89)
In article <8989@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugbell@sunybcs.UUCP (William Bell) writes: > > Does anyone use DeskView 1.0 with or without QEMM 4.2?? > > I was wondering: >1) How much memory would you say is adaquate? I'd recommend a MINIMUM of 2Mb of RAM. DESQview has many features, and thus uses up a lot of memory. My system has 2Mb and I haven't run into any memory problems so far (of course, I don't usually run any mongo-sized programs under DESQview, either!) >2) Is it true that you can run 2 programs simulataneous? A friend of mine > said I could run a BBS in the background and play a game in the forground. > Is this true? Is anyone using DeskView to do this exact thing? How about > running a BBS in the background throught COM1: and using procomm > through COM2:? I run a BBS, but not under DESQview. My machine at home runs DoubleDOS with one partition for the BBS and the other for whatever I want. Under DDOS I am able to run the BBS on one COM port while simultaneously using the other for something else. I think it's safe to assume that DESQview can do anything that DDOS can. I do know of at least one BBS that does run under DESQview. If you have a '386 and at least 2Mb RAM, DESQview can't be beat! >3) Is there a way to use memory from 640K to 1 Meg for resident programs? > Or is this just used for BIOS and MOS 4.01?? Depending on your machine, QEMM can remap that 384K chunk so that it's usable for your programs, but you're much better off using it as shadow RAM for your system and video BIOS. The performance improvement is quite dramatic and well worth the loss of that "extra" 384K. Good Luck!
reeves@dvinci.USask.CA (Malcolm Reeves) (08/10/89)
>2) Is it true that you can run 2 programs simulataneous? A friend of mine > said I could run a BBS in the background and play a game in the forground. > Is this true? Is anyone using DeskView to do this exact thing? How about > running a BBS in the background throught COM1: and using procomm > through COM2:? > I run a BBS under DESQview on com2 and can run almost anything on com1. For example, I have used procomm, telix and several other communications packages to check out the BBS (I have 2 modems and 2 phone lines). I can also upload from a remote BBS while my own BBS is running. The only thing I can't do with DESQview is run a BBS and a 3Com 3plus network session at the same time - I don't really want to but if I did I couldn't. DESQview is a very neat program which will take a large amount of abuse before it "breaks". Good Luck!