On 30 January 2014 01:50, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
"PC Desktop"?? within it.
TSR text editor, and other "accessory" programs.
Did they drop those from later PCTools?
It provided some simple basic task switching for DOS, without the extreme
overhead of Windoze.
Until I ran into the disabled critical error handler, it was doing OK.
Oh, OK. I don't think I ever saw that. My big speciality in the DOS
days was memory optimisation - wringing every last byte of
conventional RAM out of a 386. I tended to avoid TSRs - they were
memory hogs. I used DesqView, Windows 2 or Concurrent DOS if I really
needed multiple tasks.
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