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>> I emailed the contact person of VMiX yesterday, to see if he might
>> be interested in opening VMiX as open source software.
>
> clicking on the [download] button leads to
> ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/
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>> so it's possible no one is working
>> on VMiX anymore. If they would be willin
> [VMiX ...]
>> Rugxulo found the link (http://www.sysdev.org/). They aren't on
>> SourceForge, it seems they are "shareware" instead.
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> I don't know, I didn't look too too closely, esp. since it was
> confusing. I'm not sure if all versions are shareware or just the
> newer (2007? beta? 3.x?)
I agree, and I wrote about similar ideas a while back in consideration of what
we might want in 2.0.
http://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/jhall1/2009/04/
An easy way to get there, of course, is by simply using instances of a
lightweight VM emulator like DOSemu, on a stripped down version o
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>> There are multitasking DOSes (DR-DOS, RDOS, TSX-32 ??, etc.)
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> 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,
