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Date:	Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:29:04 +0200
From:	Gautier <gautier DOT demontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch>
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Subject:	Re: Multitasking: executing some EXE-files (nearly) simultaneously
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> A very interesting (=difficult to impossible) topic of
> programming with (MS)-DOS is multitasking. My idea was to
> execute two or more EXE-files (nearly) at the same time by
> reading them manually into RAM, interpreting&executing some
> commands, saving all the registers into RAM, then switching
> to the other application, restoring its previously saved
> CPU registers and executing some commands and so on...
> Does anybody have any idea how this could be made work?

The best you can is to install DR-DOS: DJGPP programs run
concurrently on their latest and surely last version (7.03)
Web: http://www.lineo.com/products/drdos.html
FTP download ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/drdos/DR-DOS.703/

> PS: I am a native "speaker" of pascal/delphi and I have
> just downloaded the DJGPP compiler some days ago and I
> began to learn C since that time, so I'm quite new to that
> programming language.

NB: languages in the Pascal area do exist for DJGPP
(extended, Borland-esque Pascals, Ada95)

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