'Windowing' programs

When I was at Leading Edge my first task was to evaluate these packages - Quarterdeck, Windows 1.0 or DRI GEM. Quarterdeck made the best package...very fast even on a 640K 4.77Mhz 8088 with a 10MB hard drive. Windows 1.0 was OK, but GEM kicked butt. Remember DoubleDOS? Incompatible with everything out there including IBM PCs. -Chandra -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John Lawson Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:58 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: 'Windowing' programs Damn - I actually paused to think before I typed the Holy Protected Word And All Its Homonyms, Antonyms, freakin lawyers - backed by Billy's Billions... maybe DOJ will point Ashcroft at them... Anyway, I used to use a program for very early DOS machines called Software Carousel, which basically freeze-dried up to 12 snapshots of the current TPA and chunked them onto the HD... and assigned each frozen session to a PF key. So you could switch back and forth between tasks easily. Obviously the 'frozen' tasks were just that: there was no backround processing, they remained suspended until that particular task was brought back into working memory from the HD. Cheers John