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- From: jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.020133.29137@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:01:33 GMT
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- baloo@mik.uky.edu writes:
- > Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask, and do away with the 640k memory barrier?
- > If not I won't believe it. Dos has gotten so far behind the times. I'm
- > completely sick and tire of 'out of memory messages' I'll have to switch
- > to unix if dos 6.0 doesn't shape up.
-
- What about OS/2. You get DOS, OS/2 and Windows compatability for a
- lot cheaper tha unix. Especially considered that IBM's newer version
- of OS/2 should be due out first Quarter '93, fixing bugs that are
- inherent in all versions of an OS. With DOS 6 who knows what you'll
- get.
-
- --
- Jason A. vanValkenburgh
- University of Virginia '95
- jav2d@virginia.edu
-