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- From: cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Keywords: dos 6
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.010324.23861@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 01:03:24 GMT
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- In <1082@diane.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> zessin@helena.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Ralf Zessin) writes:
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- >In <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> baloo@mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
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- >>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.
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- >The endless Dream.....
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- >DOS version whatever cannot have multitasking and will forever have
- >the 640k Barrier, or if this is false, no programm written under earlier
- >versions will run, or, if this is false, those programms disables multi-
- >tasking and won't believe memory above 640k.
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- >-Ralf
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- That's exactly right, Ralf. DOS is a single-user, single-tasking
- operating system and people wanting something else should use something
- else. Perhaps OS/2 or Windows. The 640Kb memory barrier is reasonably
- easy to 'break' though - the newest form being DPMI.
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- My 2 cents worth.
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- Mark Cosham
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