Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:04:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: multitasking?
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Alex Venn wrote (excerpt):

>                                          but the real problem is that it
> stopped development some years ago.

    Sadly, this seems to be true for nearly everything in the DOS
world.  If I don't want to be trapped in the Windoozy world, I might
have to bite the bullet and try to go with Linux.  Unfortunately, I
know next to nothing about Linux administration and would probably do
well in addition by installing a second HDD (I am no hardware monkey),
so Linux seems to be a bit of a daunting task.  I briefly looked at
BeOS, as it provides a (mostly) Posix-compliant shell with most of the
customary *nix-style utilities, but development there also seems to be
almost on the rocks.  Mac is out, as I am not in the market for a new
system.  Is there no alternative to Windoozy for some of poor non-geek
saps?

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