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- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.174211.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:42:11 GMT
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> <130@complex.complex.is> <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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- In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
- > In <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?
-
- Rumours have MSDOS 7 as breaking the 640Kb barrier (and breaking old software,
- I guess), and DRDOS 7 doing multitasking and to some extent breaking the 640K
- barrier. You could get Unix (Linux is pretty good, and free, and has DOS
- emulation available), or OS/2.
-
- You might be able to get away with MS-Windows on top of DOS. You might even be
- able to use MS- or DR-DOS 5 or 6 to go a little way past 640K if you're only
- missing by about 100Kb, and assuming you have a 386 or better.
-
- Oh yes, and concurrent DR-DOS; that's been out for a while. Goodness knows who
- uses it though; I think some process control applications do, but not much
- else? Somebody else might like to tell us what it can do.
-
- >> I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader.
- > It doesn't have any wildcard expansions build in. Every program must
- > expand the wildcards for it self.
- >
- You can improve on the built-in wildcard expansion with something like wild
- unix. But overall, you're right - DOS has been let stagnate for ages. It seems
- to be chugging along now at a good speed (late, but at least going in the right
- direction).
-
- Mark Aitchison.
-