Hi Karen, > does freedos has its own multitasking included in its latest package?
Not really. I remember there was something built into the DREMM386 and DR-DOS, but I am not sure how far that would work for what you need. Also, MS DOS had a task swapping feature in DOSSHELL. As far as I remember, that only let you run one program at a time, but multiple programs could be open, non-running programs frozen in the background? If you really want to run multiple programs at the same time, you will want to use something like Windows, Linux and so on. Also because those will let you display more than one window at the same time, so programs have less trouble sharing one screen, one keyboard and so on... To run very classic DOS software on newer hardware, as you already mentioned that the harddisk is quite big, you can also always try a more comprehensive operating system as host (Linux, Windows) with something to host DOS inside (DOSEMU or any emulation of a PC, e.g. QEMU, Bochs, VirtualPC). For games, DOSBOX might be useful. > They desire a multitasking though, and I am just not using > freedos so cannot say. MS dos 7.1 works fine for me. I gather you do not use Windows 98 itself much? Because you can only have MS "DOS" 7.1 if you also have Win98. Do you yourself use multitasking? If so, you probably do so by opening multiple DOS windows inside Windows 98? Of course Windows 98 is not included with FreeDOS, so if you need Windows, you have to buy Windows... Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
