On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:46:51AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > > [...] DR-DOS, since at > > least 5, have had taskswitching. > > Well, sort of. AFAICR, it was a bleeding edge feature, and it felt like > one. You just didn't really expect it to work like we expect Linux to > work. After all, it was just a DOS. This is not to start a flamewar, > but rather to inform the reader the real meaning of the words sometimes > isn't the obvious one.
Quarterdeck brought out a task-switching system to run on ordinary DOS; ISTR it got a glowing review in Electronics & Wireless World - they rated it better than the windoze of the time - but it was text-based rather than full pretty pictures GUI, and didn't have M$'s backing, so it sunk without trace. Unfortunately I never got a chance to try it. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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