Hi, On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:36 PM, jhall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > There are multitasking DOSes (DR-DOS, RDOS, TSX-32 ??, etc.) > > inherently useless > > Not useless, really. For example, MS-DOS 5 introduced their DOS Shell that > supported task switching, a rudimentary form of multitasking.
You could also (allegedly) just change your Win3x or Win9x "shell=" line (system.ini ??) to command.com and use BootGUI=0 (or whatever). Or such. ;-) > I'd love to see this as a feature added to FreeDOS one day. Of course! I mean, there are advantages to not multitasking (believe it or not) *sometimes*, but most people, myself included, would enjoy being able to compile in the background (or download a file, etc). Anyways, I honestly have not researched this much, just like most everybody else, so I've only somewhat used DR-DOS 7.03 and various Windows and DOSEMU. In other words, far from exhaustive. Nevertheless, here's some *more* links that may prove useful for future reference, though I admit to not having memorized them, studied them, investigated fully, etc. Just enjoy a quick read, don't take it too seriously! (VMIX [sysdev] sounds particularly interesting, but I've got no patience right now to try to bother with its curious, very very interesting, but somewhat dubious, licensing.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM/386 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-MOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL/32 http://www.sysdev.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
