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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:05:55 -0700
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From: Daniel Pierce <db6646 AT dragonbbs DOT com>
Subject: Re: Another reason for DOS/FreeDOS/DOS32, etc.
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I have found a mulitasking MS-Dos compatible operating system!

It's at http://nanosft.com/products/multidos.html

It's shareware and downloadable.

I haven't read all the fine print in the manual so don't flame me if it
ain't really usefull.
Does say that it runs 64 .exe/.com tasks at a time and has messages and
semaphores.

Now to try it with DJGPP.......








At 04:56 PM 4/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Daniel Pierce said:
>
>> I think we really need a multi-tasking DOS.
>
>Agreed.
>
>> I would like a Linux-like OS but Linux is overkill. I am trying it with a
>> 300 meg drive and have found difficulty in taking out the un-needed network
>> & emacs type stuff.  X-windows is way too much bloat just to display a few
>> jpeg images. Progress IS being made though.
>
>Have you taken a look at PicoBSD?  It fits on a floppy.  It might still 
>be overkill in features (multiuser? security?), but it sure is tiny, and 
>multitasking, and 32 bit.
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html
>