> Now the second point is if I remember the "stuff" correctly the > problem with DOS task switching is having the CPU start again in the > right place when a session was switched back into the DOS space
The primary problem with multitasking is that you must care about clean rock-solid sharing of ALL resources (CPU, memory, screen, keyboard, sound card, disks, ...). DOS is not designed for that. > Or boot Windows and start multiple DOSBOX windows :-) :-( > modern Intel boxes have way more RAM > than does DOS can use or needs You can use it as RAMDISK or for image or video editing :-) But > 2 GiB seems to be a problem (MMIO space steals physical RAM). > But do they still support PAE? Did they ever? (Win2k3 perhaps? I don't know and don't care. The mainstream future is 64-bit. Be happy as long as new PC's can run DOS natively. If not, there is BOCHS :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
