On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 4:18 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>

On the Wikipedia page for PC-MOS it says: "MMU support for 286 class
machines was provided using a proprietary hardware shim inserted between
the processor and its socket."

That's pretty wild.


> There are multitasking layers you can load on top of DOS, such as DESQview.
>

And TSR programs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_program>.

-- 
andrew fabbro
and...@fabbro.org
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