Hi, 2011/9/13 Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>: > 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.
There would be a way, but would require someone to find out if it is feasible and work about it. I haven't done it myself, although I was tempted to try out. Pick the smallest Linux distribution that you know. Remove X and anything about graphics. Remove any Unix stuff, and configure init to have several virtual consoles boot the text-mode of DOSEMU (instead of any unix-style terminal), in which you put FreeDOS. Wouldn't it be great that you'd have several FreeDOSes running simultaneously? (switch with Ctrl+Alt+Fn). You wouldn't have the problem of "modern hardware" (Linux does the part), but then you have quite other disadvantages (I don't know how good would be the drive mapping process that DOSEMU does. Would be nice if DOSEMU scanned all the disks and mapped ALL partitions automatically). In the meantime, yes, at least task switching would be great. Aitor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
