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From: "SERACK, Garrett W.*" <gserack AT shl DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "'ksinner AT solaria DOT sol DOT net'" <ksinner AT solaria DOT sol DOT net>
Subject: RE: 32bit DOS.
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:13:44 -0600
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Or maybe something like this:
Create or build a small, multithreading, pre-emptive multitasking program 
that would give you multiple virtual "consoles" as in Linux.  Perhaps use 
VSTa (Valencia Simple Tasker), or something derived from MMURTL, as long as 
it works on a regular FAT file system.
Then run DOSEMU in each console, and your favorite shell (bash, 4DOS, 
whatever) in each copy of DOSEMU.  Graphics/screen multiplexing could be 
provided by the General Graphics Interface (GGI).
What do you think?  Should be possible in 300K or so?  :-)

WARNING : REMEMBERED 'FACTS' Follow. Accuracy is not guaranteed!

I seem to remember a version of Linux someone put together that ran 
entirely off of a FAT file system.  ( MINILINUX ?) I know that it doesn't 
like to run on large drives 'cause it uses a early version of umsdos file 
system.  I remember that it dates to '95 or so.  Maybe we need to rebuild 
that sort of thing.  I would love to run linux off of my FAT drive.

Big G