On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:33:31 -0800 W�rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently heard about MS-DOS V4.00, released only > briefly in Europe that had multitasking capabilities.
> I was wondering if anyone had it in their collections, > or has tried it and could tell me if it's any good --- > I've noticed some of the multitasking functions in > Ralf Brown's list and have been wondering if it could > multitask standard programs or if they had to be > written to multitask. <snip> I used to use MS-DOS 4.01. Before there was MS-DOS 4.01 there was an MS-DOS 4.0 which appeared but briefly and suddenly discontinued because of some alleged bug. People who had it were advised to turn it back in and to apply for the 4.01 upgrade. Any editions of 4.0 which might still be in existence are probably rare collector items. I don't know any details about this bug that was supposedly present in the first release of the major version upgrade. I don't know anyone who ever used DOS 4.0. Most people including myself didn't like MS-DOS 4.01. Memory management was very poor and the system left a big footprint. A lot of people who tried out 4.01 downgraded to 3.30 because 4.01 was so bad and such a hog for memory. That is what I did. I don't think there were any upgrades for the major version 4.x beyond 4.01. I never heard about any so-called multi-tasking capabilities in either of the DOS 4.x releases. If either of these releases did in fact have any such capabilities, and if they worked OK, then the DOS 4.x versions would not have been so unpopular, especially considering that the earlier DOS version, 3.30, remains very popular even to this day among many users of SurvPCs. BTW, I still have my original installation disks and my user manuals for DOS 4.01. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
