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There are two (at least) answers to that one.. After teaching this stuff
for a zillion years, I'm inclined to give the pedantic answer;
multitasking involves "time slicing" the computer and juggling multiple
applications on a time-shared basis so that all tasks continue to
process information, albeit in short bursts. In that sense, MSDOS
applications generally are not multitasking. You can, at application
level, "park" one task while you do another, but that isn't really
multi-tasking. Linux and WindowsNT and it's derivatives and DRDOS are
capable of multitasking.

Arno Schuh wrote:
> 
> 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
>