- viler 191 days agoMost of the sysops I knew who ran DOS-based BBSs used to swear by Desqview, even long after win3.1x came along. According to them it was simply much more stable, and had less overhead too.
- bmonkey325 191 days agoIt was definitely popular with TBBS. I think PCboard wanted the machine to itself. I ran majorBBS up until the internet happened and then it just didn’t matter any more
it was largely eliminated by windows 3.1 but before win3.1 it was the best way to run multiple apps at same time. the ability to devote a % of the cpu to various apps so that your word processor barely ticked over in the background while your spreadsheet was working away happily was wonderful on the limited pcs of the time.