Multitasking Software

[ziloo]

Some years ago there was a multitasking software from
Quarterdeck, which allowed me to run several programs
simultaneously on a 286 under Dos. Has anybody used this
software (or similar one)? Are there any public release or
shareware version available?

 

[Terry Yager]

DesQview...

--T

 

[Terry Yager]

Try DRDOS, from Digital Research, et. al. It does multitasking well.

www.drdos.net

--T

 

[ziloo]

Right on Terry, the name was DesQview that I could not remember.
How come you know so much????

I haven't used DRDOS at all, and probably I should try it now. As far as I remember, DesQview would split the screen into several sort of windows, and then I could be using one window for a word processor, and another window for executingn an EXE file (although it was painfully slow). Is that how DRDOS works?

ziloo

 

[Terry Yager]

Ah, gee...now you're taxing my poor, poor, pitiful memory banks. As I recall, DRDOS doesn't do tiling of it's windows. You can have more than one process running, but only one is on-screen at a time, while the others run in the background. There's hotkeys to jump between active screens, IIRC. If you d/l version 7.01 or 7.02, the download includes documentation, so you can read up on it before installing.

--T