Florian Xaver wrote:
Hi!
Has anyone tried it? http://phantom.urbis.net.il/bphantom/tridos.html
Maybe it should be included into the FreeDOS Util set.
What do you think, would it be difficult to enhance it to support DPMI
programs?
Bye, Flo
I'm going through some old email, and found Florian's note from 6/5. In
short, Triple-DOS is a pre-emptive multitasker for DOS on session level
a-la Windows in Enhanced mode or OS/2. Looks interesting - but since I
haven't tried it out yet, I won't add it to the Util list. I will,
however, mirror it on ibiblio.
Triple-DOS has nearly no device drivers. Triple-DOS doesn't provide a
proprietary API for DOS programs - its purpose is to run existent DOS
binaries that are not aware of multitasking.
This release, version 0.50, is freeware using a BSD-similar license.
DOS may be any type or version but it must be compatible with MS-DOS
version 3.0 - so FreeDOS may work, but I haven't tried it.
According to the web site, you may start a new DOS session at any time
by pressing Alt-Enter, change to the next session with Alt-Tab, and
terminate the currently active session with Alt-End. You may quit
Triple-DOS any time by pressing Alt-Esc.
In order to compile Triple-DOS you need MASM 6.x. ZIP file includes an
RCS directory that contains all previous versions. Use GNU RCS to manage
the revisions.
Triple-DOS has a DPMI 0.9 server. Simple assembly programs work (both
16-bit and 32-bit) but support for large applications in multitasking
environment is tricky. Since the DPMI server was never stable, the DPMI
entry points were always disabled in release versions.
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