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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.164603.2166@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: dos 6
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> <130@complex.complex.is> <BxAq18.L9o@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:46:03 GMT
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- In <BxAq18.L9o@ra.nrl.navy.mil> miner@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Les Miner) writes:
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- >In article <130@complex.complex.is> frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
- >>baloo@mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
- >>
- >>>Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask, and do away with the 640k memory barrier?
- >>
- >>No. Basically DOS 6.0 is just DOS 5.0 with a bunch of new utilities bundled.
- >>The big changes will wait for DOS 7 - if that ever will be released.
- >>
- >If you want something to compare to UNIX just wait for Windows NT. Its in
- >Beta rignt now. There is a newsgroup called comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- >that discusses this.
-
- And by this time next year, maybe there will be a real product to
- discuss and Microsoft will have decided if they're trying to compete
- with UNIX or with OS/2. :-)
-
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