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- From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <rdippold.721598010@qualcom>
- Keywords: dos 6
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- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:53:30 GMT
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- baloo@mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
- >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.
-
- Dos 6.0 is just DOS 5.0 with a bunch of third party utilities.
- They're still playing catch-up with DR-DOS. People have been saying
- that DOS 7 multitasks and breaks the 640K barrier. I claim it'll
- never happen. There have to be other people here who remember way
- back when DOS 3.x was king, and DOS 4 was going to "Have multitasking
- and break the 640K barrier!" then it was DOS 5, then DOS 6, now DOS 7.
- No way. It's far better marketing for them to leave it out of DOS so
- people will pay extra for Windows for those features.
- --
- The average income of the modern teenager is about 2AM.
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