On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:23:27 -0600, ArarghMail611NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:57:06 +0100, Sjouke Burry
><burrynulnulfour@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>Checking back , i found multytasking in dos 4.00,
>>as an extra :)
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>I think that was European DOS 4, and from what little I know of it,
>the programs had to be specifically written to use it.
Yup. The multitasking European DOS 4 was a different animal from the
commonly-known MS-DOS 4.
Later versions of DR DOS included a task-switching or multitasking
capability. The heavy lifting was performed by the memory manager,
not the DOS kernel. You needed at least a '386 for multitasking. I don't
recall whether the simpler task-switching option also required a '386, or
whether a '286 would suffice.
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Charles Dye raster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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