Hi everyone!
I've tried tu use the multitasking feature of DR-DOS, too. They specify in
the doc (somewhere in the help file I believe) that it was impossible for
two applications to share the same peripheral (say a COM port).
In fact this is done by creating a virtual machine for each application,
and in that case the program sees a virtual device not a real one.
I tried to use DOSEMU under Linux. In fact DOSEMU provides such virtual
stuff. Your favorite version of DOS will boot and run not on a plain PC,
but on a
DOSEMU machine. In fact, two or three DOSes will boot simultaneously if you
want...
Well, the emulation of a PC on a PC isn't perfect, but, at least, you have
some real multitasking there.
(And none of you mentioned Windows NT. And I'm not sure, but I believe
Win9x acts pretty much the same with DOS in a window box ;-)
Cristian Burneci.
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>Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:42:51 +0100
>From: "Joerg Dietze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: FREE DOS Multi-tasking?
>Hi Curtis and all,
>I tried DOS multasking, too, but without success. It seems that DR-DOS
>stops any traffic at serial or ethernet ports when switching to an other
>task. I also tried mt.com with wget.exe and dss.exe and it doesn't work
>'cuz wget run exclusive and mt was not able to start a second task.
>
>Regards Joerg
>
