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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.172750.14004@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Keywords: dos 6
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
- References: <rdippold.721598010@qualcom> <dmurdoch.273.721666467@mast.queensu.ca> <1992Nov13.173536.11734@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:27:50 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov13.173536.11734@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <dmurdoch.273.721666467@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >
- >>In article <rdippold.721598010@qualcom> rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- >>>They're still playing catch-up with DR-DOS. People have been saying
- >>>that DOS 7 multitasks and breaks the 640K barrier. I claim it'll
- >>>never happen. There have to be other people here who remember way
- >>>back when DOS 3.x was king, and DOS 4 was going to "Have multitasking
- >>>and break the 640K barrier!"
- >
- >>In fact, there were two completely different DOS 4's. One was released only
- >>in Europe, and did do multitasking. The other was developed by IBM, and
- >>didn't. Only descendants of the IBM version were ever released in North
- >>America.
- >
- >Didbn't the DOS 4 that did multitasking actually wind up becoming
- >OS/2? I have this impression from somewhere, but the book I think I
- >saw mention of it in is at home.
-
- According to "Inside OS/2 2.0" by Minasi et. al. OS/2 was originally
- going to be DOS 4, then DOS 5....
-
- Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
-