Or Botton wrote:
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> Well, here is one of those ideas that will never actually become
> reality: what could be usefull is a program that will allow Arachne
> on DOS to run as a parent thread. An external multitasking software
> that will be loaded and ran before Arachne itself is executed, which
> Arachne can later detect and know how to use.
>
> This will allow it to run its (small!) utilities without really quitting
> CORE.EXE. Ofcourse, this means a multitasker, not a task switcher,
> since CORE will have to continue running on background all the time.
> I'm talking about a lite version of multitasking, nothing heavy.
> Not talking about projects like the DR-DOS task manager or Desqview
> that allow loading several big dos programs at once in diffrent tasks,
> but of a multitasker that allows loading only ONE task and then running
> "under it" several tasks at once. Linux style threads, with only one
> thread.
>
> But thats too hard to make and its just an idea. (something tells
> me i'm going to be flamed anyway.)
Or, I'M not going to "flame" you because that is the thing I was proposing.
It's best to call it a "thing" to avoid semantic entanglements. <g>
I hope I haven't stepped in any poo here.
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