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- From: rhaksi@engr.UVic.CA (Ryan Haksi)
- Subject: Re: Why ms-dos is non reentrant
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.223315.16145@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 22:33:15 GMT
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- >In article <1992Sep4.061954.24900@zooid.guild.org>, ross@zooid.guild.org (Ross Ridge) wrote:
- >}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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- > and then Ross Brown wrote:
- > Given that MS wants to sell windows I doubt it
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- mmm... actually, last I heard MS was planning on releasing a DOS 6 would be
- a pre-emptively multitasking, multithreaded etc etc environment (386 only)
- thus providing an environment capable of implementing the full win32 specification
- granted this now could be out of date cuz we all know how MS is..... (win32s - the
- s standing for Subset - will run on top of dos 5, in win32 there are a bunch of
- priority, threading etc related calls which dos5 makes impossible)
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- The plan being to have windows run on High(NT), Middle(DOS6&windows4) and low(dos 5 &
- windows 3.x) platforms thus allowing MS to establish global dictatorship... (whoops
- that just kinda slipped in there... ;-) )
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