Subject: Re: BASIC & EMS (was: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)
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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:29:26 +0000 (GMT)
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: Win3.x and Win9x are cooperative multitasking, The latest version Desqview
: (not older versions) and Dr-DOS taskmanager (7.03) are pre-emptive
: multitasking which is much better.

  A simplification. Win 3.x preemptively multitasks DOS sessions, and 
cooperatively multitasks Windows 16-bit and 32-bit programs. Win9x 
preemptively multitasks DOS and Win32 programs, but cooperatively multitasks
16-bit programs.

: Yes, Linux as a 32-bit protected mode system, DOS supports 16/32-bit
: real/protected mode.

  See vm86(2). Linux can run programs in 16-bit V86 mode.

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