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- From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.060504.10390@netcom.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 06:05:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov10.060504.10390
- References: <130@complex.complex.is> <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1992Nov10.174211.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Nov10.174211.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz 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
-
- DOS, if it to remain MS-DOS or PC-DOS can *never* break the 640K barrier.
- It is part of what makes it DOS. Anything that breaks the 640K
- barrier will have to be a new operating system.
-