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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <dmurdoch.273.721666467@mast.queensu.ca>
- Keywords: dos 6
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- Organization: Queen's University
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> <rdippold.721598010@qualcom>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:54:27 GMT
-
- In article <rdippold.721598010@qualcom> rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- >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!"
-
- In fact, there were two completely different DOS 4's. One was released only
- in Europe, and did do multitasking. The other was developed by IBM, and
- didn't. Only descendants of the IBM version were ever released in North
- America.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-