gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau) (06/13/90)
I recently posted a request for information on softwarer for switching between application/ multitasking on 286 and 386 PCs. The current forerunners are : Desqview 386 (+ QEMM 386 ?) Windows 3.0 VM/386 and Software Carousel for 286. Can anyone who has used these software please comment on the ease of use, hardware requirement, compatibility with a network drive (PCNFS) and speed. Windowing capabilities are not critical but are nice to have. Thanks alot. -- ************************************************************ Gavin Zau Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT gavin@caf.mit.edu mefl@eagle.mit.edu
jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) (06/14/90)
In article <4633@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes: > > I recently posted a request for information on softwarer for >... > Windows 3.0 >... Will McClatchy in Information Week, June 11, 1990, page 15 writes: "Early users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.0 software say it will destory data and crash hard disks that have not been formatted with MS-DOS 4.01. What's more, some users say the company knew about the problem but has not done enough to alert them...." --- James Howard Howard Electronic Laboratories Products & Services AA5R cs.utexas.edu!helps!jhoward or jhoward@helps.cactus.org
rap@la.excelan.com (Robert A. Pease) (06/14/90)
In article <1086@helps.cactus.org> jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) writes: >Will McClatchy in Information Week, June 11, 1990, page 15 writes: > > "Early users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.0 software say it will > destory data and crash hard disks that have not been formatted with > MS-DOS 4.01. What's more, some users say the company knew about > the problem but has not done enough to alert them...." > I don't know where he (Will McClatchy) got this information, but I have never had a data loss with Windows 3.0. The only thing that has happened is lost clusters from a temp file if I incorrectly terminate Pagemaker, vi or some other program which uses temp files. This is to be expected considering the application was terminated before it updated the directory. rap. Robert A. Pease, Novell rap. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. (Open Systems Division) Internet: rap@novell.COM
george@shumv1.ncsu.edu (George Browning) (06/15/90)
>Will McClatchy in Information Week, June 11, 1990, page 15 writes: > > "Early users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.0 software say it will > destory data and crash hard disks that have not been formatted with > MS-DOS 4.01. What's more, some users say the company knew about > the problem but has not done enough to alert them...." > --- I've been using the beta and final releases of Windows 3.0 on a variety of machines (at both home and at work) without any of the above mentioned incidents. We have had Windows 3.0 since around February. We have had no problems running on DOS 3.3 (and some derivatives like HP DOS) although we needed to get updated workstation shells from Novell for our network. - Jeff -- _____________________________________________________________________ | George Browning North Carolina State University | | george@shumv1.ncsu.edu Raleigh, NC | |___________________________________________________________________|
abukarb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bassam A. Abu-Karroum) (06/15/90)
In article <1086@helps.cactus.org> jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) writes: >In article <4633@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes: >> >> I recently posted a request for information on softwarer for >>... >> Windows 3.0 >>... > >Will McClatchy in Information Week, June 11, 1990, page 15 writes: > > "Early users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3.0 software say it will > destory data and crash hard disks that have not been formatted with > MS-DOS 4.01. What's more, some users say the company knew about ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm sorry, but this is not true. I'm running Win3.0 on my 286 machine with DOS version 3.30 with no problems at all. What the article didn't mention is that most of those users are using a non-standard disk partitioning utilities such as disk-manager and speeddstor that are not "compatible" with Windows 3.0. > the problem but has not done enough to alert them...." On the original disks, I don't recall which one, there is a text file that discusses such situations and offers a workaround for the problem. The workaround involves modifying the WIN.INI file by adding a couple of lines (the changes included in the text file) to allow Windows/3.0 and disk partitioning utilities to co-exist. The problems is mainly with disk drives with cylinders > 1024 AND partitioned by *some" 3rd party methods. From my personla experience, if you need to work > 1024 cylinders disk, use DOS 4.01 to save you the headache and worries. NO, I don't own shares in Microsoft. Sam.