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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Why ms-dos is non reentrant
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.224650.14154@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 22:46:50 GMT
- References: <bws.35@ccs.carleton.ca> <1992Sep1.160133.19060@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Sep2.065315.19027@zooid.guild.org>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <1992Sep2.065315.19027@zooid.guild.org> ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
- [...]
- >For MS-DOS 6, if it ever comes about, I could see a complete rewrite
- >of MS-DOS in C, supporting full re-entrency and other wonderful stuff.
- >It of course would only run on a '286 or better, and require a couple
- >of megabytes of memory. Not suprisingly it would look at a lot like
- >OS/2 (once known internally at MS as DOS 5).
-
- Actually, PC Week (Aug 3, 92) says that DOS 6.0 will be the same as
- DOS 5.0, but with extra utilities like a disk defrager, etc. It
- seems that DOS 7.0 will be the re-write.
-
- And you are right: OS/2 is simply a multi-tasking, multi-threaded
- DOS. With OS/2 2.0 out, it is also a 32-bit, flat-memory DOS as
- well.
-
- >
- > Ross Ridge
- >
- >--
- >Ross Ridge - The Great HTMU l/ //
- > [OO][oo]
- >ross@zooid.guild.org /()\/()/
- >uunet.ca!zooid!ross db //
-
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