Hi, Eric Auer escribió:
FreeDOS passes that strange tests, but the real problem is with 32bit mode (Win 3.1 /3 mode and default mode of WfW 3.11, actually WfW 3.11 runs only in a stripped down safe mode if you tell it to disable all 32bit drivers and stuff). This mode does real multitasking with DOS. Well, kind of. It tweaks all kinds of internal DOS properties to make DOS believe that it is not multi- tasking at all. FreeDOS does not yet clone all internal oddities of MS kernels well enough to support that.
Any WIN/3 does DOS multitasking (and from Win95 onwards also multithreading), but it's just that FreeDOS kernel does not response to the DOS extender broadcast (WIN386 broadcast) in order to instantiate its data. I suppose that if this were implemented in FreeDOS kernel things would work much better under WIN/3. I haven't thought which other apps would need to respond to this broadcast too.
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