Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/23/12:12:44
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, David Beck wrote:
> Since I am not a DOS expert, I don't know that under DOS , isn't it
> possible to make a run-time system, say extender, that support
> multiple threads ( with the same data segment ) and multiple
> processes ( with different data segment ) ?
It's possible, you just have to work harder, because DOS itself has no
system calls to support multi-tasking, so you need to write the entire
machinery by yourself. In fact, DOS makes it even harder due to its
non-reentrant nature, so you need to serialize access to DOS calls.
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