dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (04/04/89)
I'm planning to get a 386 machine with a Hi-res video card/monitor (800x600 or 1024x768). I would like to run Windows 386. Many of the program I'll run are standard apps (i.e. not Windows programs, just ordinary MESSDOS programs). I want to know if I can run several of these programs simultaneously such that each will have a substantially, if not completely unobscured standard text display window. That is, more than one complete 80x25 text window. To make it even clearer: a standard EGA display has 640x350 pixels. This EGA display can display one full text screen of 80x25 (actually even 80x43). Since 1024x768 can swallow two complete EGA pixels-worth with room to spare, I would hope that such a Hi-res display can give you at least two if not more full 80x25 text windows for 2 or more standard apps (non-Windows) programs. Will Windows 386 do this ? (I have heard "support engineers" grumble that standard apps programs use the "system font" and thus cannot be squeezed into small windows with small fonts... grumble, grumble...) Please email responses. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.edu NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet