the intel processor manuals are at:
http://www.intel.com/design/corei7ee/documentation.htm
programming 3a section 7.6 is of specific interest, as it contains stuff about
multicore and multithreaded programming for IA-32 procs.
>________________________________
>From: Travis Siegel <tsie...@softcon.com>
>To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers
>
>
>On Sep 11, 2011, at 5:36 PM, jhall 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.
>>
>> I used to use this feature all the time as a student: for example,
>> to run a word processor and spreadsheet program as separate tasks.
>> I think I usually had a command.com shell in there too. That let me
>> write up my data analysis for labs much faster, because I could
>> quickly jump back to the spreadsheet or my own analysis program to
>> look at results, then describe it using the word processor.
>>
>> I'd love to see this as a feature added to FreeDOS one day.
>There's always vmix, it's pretty good, and actually does true
>multitasking. Last I saw, it was trying to become an os in it's own
>right, where it could be used as a dos replacement. I don't think
>this got very far, but if I recall correctly, it is on sourceforge,
>or something similar.
>That program worked so well, my screen reader would read all the
>active windows simultaneously, which really reaked havoc with
>understanding what was going on, but it did work, and worked very
>well. :)
>Perhaps freedos could talk to the vmix folks, and ask them to release
>code to the 2.67 version, so we could include it into freedos as it's
>own shell, or something similar (or was the latest 2.87, I forget)
>It may be worth a try though.
>
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