Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 12:46:46 +1200 From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison) Subject: Re: multitasking/multithreading programming examples To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <199805040046.MAA13320@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> Precedence: bulk > > > ... pre-emptive multitasking, and multithreading (if Vladivar > > > has been enabled by a client like TASKMGR loaded as a multitasker). > ... > Vladivar was the codename for the memory manager used in NWDOS > and after, i.e. OpenDOS... The DRDOS 6 memory manager was called Smirnoff.. Does anything use multiTHREADING with DRDOS (as opposed to multitasking, which is easy with TASKMGR)? I guess applications could be written with multithreading libraries to run under any DOS - I'm not sure what is available there, but could such programs have problems under Vladivar that are okay under Smirnoff and Micro Softdrinks (er, MS DOS) because Vlad is being extra smart with the CPU? What is the current status of the DRDOS 6 memory manager - at one stage it was suggested as an alternative for people having difficulties (e.g. with games) under NW/Open/DRD-DOS 7. Is it still a useful alternative if multitasking isn't needed? And I'd be keen to see any programming examples for multithreading. I do have example Turbo Pascal programs for using DRDOS multitasking, if anybody wants them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Aitchison, \_ Phone: +64 3 364-2947 home 337-1225 Dept of Physics & Astronomy,