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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Why ms-dos is non reentrant
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.220042.28496@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Sep1.160133.19060@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Sep2.065315.19027@zooid.guild.org> <BtzE9H.53G.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Sep4.061954.24900@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:00:42 GMT
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- In <1992Sep4.061954.24900@zooid.guild.org> ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) writes:
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- >>MSDOS 4.00 allowed one foreground and up to 30 background tasks (limited by
- >>conventional memory), with interprocess communications, semaphores,
- >>scheduling, etc. And it supported asynchronous device drivers, where the
- >>split into strategy and interrupt routines actually meant something.
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- >Do you think any of MS-DOS 4.00 will make it in to a future multitasking
- >MS-DOS or will they just ignore it?
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- Didn't this (sort of) eventually grow up to become OS/2 1.0?
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