Hi, 2011/9/11 jhall <jh...@freedos.org>: > > There are multitasking DOSes (DR-DOS, RDOS, TSX-32 ??, etc.) > > 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, to run a > word processor and spreadsheet program as separate tasks. I think I usually > had a command.com shell in there too. That let me write up my data analysis > for labs much faster, because I could quickly jump back to the spreadsheet > or my own analysis program to look at results, then describe it using the > word processor. > I'd love to see this as a feature added to FreeDOS one day.
Me too! I fear about hardware status, thought it should be feasible for "regular" programs. 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
