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Probably not relevant to multitasking discussion, but I switched to
Arachne which does support newer web features and has the multiple
clients as plugins. As I understand it, Minuet doesn't really multitask
(the switched out function is suspended much like Windows31) and the web
browser is pretty limited. The gopher and mail clients are excellent. We
sused it here in schools for a long time, and I still have it in my
archive. DRDOS supports multitasking in the 386 and up installation and
has a taskmanager. 

Arno Schuh wrote:
> 
> Hi Florian,
> Minuet was developed from a team of developers of mainly the University of
> Minnesota and iirc. based on Popmail.
> Unfortunately the development of Minuet stoped before the first release in a
> pretty early stadium of the software. I. e. the www client isn't able to
> handle frames.
> I don't know if the UMN still support this software. You'll find links to
> Minuet at the DOS Internet section of
> http://www.fdisk.com
> or on the home page of the uka_ppp package at
> http://mvmpc9.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de
> It is not included in the uka_ppp package itself, but you should find it for
> download there.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Arno