Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:00:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David Beck <beck AT mail DOT matav DOT hu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP 32-bit question
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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.