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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: <1992Nov10.172231.752@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> <130@complex.complex.is> <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1992Nov10.174211.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:22:31 GMT
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- In <1992Nov10.174211.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
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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?
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- >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.
-
- LINUX has DOS emulation available? Since when? At what level? Will
- it run Windows (3.0 in Real mode, presumably, if at all).
-
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