On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 06:23:57PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 08:57:08PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > > I'm experimenting with some old DOS versions, notably PC DOS, in VirtualBox. > > > > I have a PC-DOS 2000 system with DesqView and DesqView/X working > > fairly well -- no networking yet but I'm working on it. > > Out of curiosity, because I am from time to time wet dreaming about > having some kind of graphical frontend to the DOS, but with ability to > run multiple DOS programs in parallel. Like one could run them in > Windows 3.x (and this sucked a bit, but otherwise made it possible to > run editor and something else and switch between them without quitting > and starting like mad). > > So, could DesqView give me something like this? From all descriptions > I have read so far, it could not. But I am not sure. Yes, I should > have tried to check it by myself, but there is no time to follow every > dream.
Uh. Never mind. I looked up again and now it says "multitasking for DOS". Funny. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
