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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 08:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Adam <sylphid AT infomatch DOT com>
To: randir <goehrigd AT gort DOT canisius DOT edu>
cc: Matt Adam <sylphid AT berlin DOT infomatch DOT com>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: some stuff
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970513074312.27446C-100000@gort.canisius.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970513081754.9141A-100000@infomatch.com>
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, randir wrote:

> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Matt Adam wrote:
> 
> 	You know that as long as you don't switch tasks while the com
> 	is active you shouldn't have any trouble..

i know, but that kind of ruins the whole point of multitasking .. want to
be able to switch tasks and such while i'm downloading in another window.
or while a caller is on my bbs.

> That's the nice thing about DOS... you can kill it and it doesn't mess up
> your system... now you try that under windows and you just end up getting
> page fault errors and garbage like that.... blah...

no kidding...

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