Hi, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > [...] >>> 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. ;-) > > But that would require using Windows. I try not to use proprietary > systems where possible.
Right, but since 99% of the world uses Windows (you know what I mean ...), obviously it's not a huge problem to most people (myself included, though I'm clearly on your side, heh). I was just mentioning it for completeness. >>> 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). > > In DOS, it would be awesome to have true multitasking, where you can > let a process run in the background (like a compile) while you do > something else (browser?) But to be honest, all I really want/need is > some sort of extension or "shell" that provides task-switching, rather > than true multitasking. I agree, but it's hard to do, esp. with so much compatibility to support. I don't see any advantage in breaking the entire API (not that you do, of course), but perhaps minimal incompatibilities could be tolerated (e.g. we lived with half-broken NTVDM without any huge huge complaints). If anybody who is super bored or a whiz in x86 asm and OS development has time, they could check out TriDOS and try to "fix" it to work (correctly, heh). I would, but I'm fairly certain that I'm too dumb! http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
