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From: Arno DOT Schuh AT t-online DOT de (Arno Schuh)
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Subject: Re: multitasking?
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:29:47 +0100
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Hi,
as I supose Jim is blind, and so Arachne isn't an alternative for him at
all, because Arachne only runs in graphic mode. Unfortunately screenreaders
for the blind only works with software that runs in text mode. So if you
don't want to start and exit you Internet clients there are afaik. only one
DOS alternative to Minuet and that's Netamer.
Btw. what's your definition of real multitasking?

Greetings

Arno

Von: "Thomas A Webb" <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2001 00:57


> 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.