From:	Joseph Morris <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Multitasking
Date:	Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:56:46 +0100
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"Alexei A. Frounze" wrote:
> 
> You may switch between threads, but you can't have real multitasking (i.e. both
> programs could use DOS and BIOS services at the same time, for example).
> 
> See my tutorial on multithreading in DOS (and DOS-box too):
> 
> http://members.xoom.com/alexfru/programming/multit.zip (10KB)

The DRDOS EMM386 supports simple multithreading and IPC, but you have
to pay for the SDK and the only interfaces are via the multiplexer interrupt.

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