On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 11:36, Ramon Riera Marès via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I want to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have two > applications running, for example an outliner and a text editor, and be able > to switch from one to the other without having to exit the current > application.
This is called "multitasking" and the fact that DOS didn't do it is pretty much why DOS was replaced in the early 1990s by Windows, Linux, and other OSes. There are multitasking DOSes out there, but they are aimed at multiple people sharing one PC, such as MultiUser DOS. Some are even FOSS: https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 There are multitasking layers you can load on top of DOS, such as DESQview. But no, unaided DOS can't do that. In the 21st century DOS is more or less "the old PC OS that did not multitask." This is its defining characteristic. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
