X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Message-ID: <000101c1c10d$24bd35c0$c03dfea9@atlantis> From: "Matthias Paul" To: Subject: Successor of IMS REAL/32 multiuser multitasking DOS on Linux Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:20:09 +0100 Organization: University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g21AgNM17650 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I thought this might be interesting to some of you: Intelligent Micro Software is developing a successor of their IMS REAL/32 7.92 operating system, which will be called REAL NG ("next generation"???) and will run under Linux (RedHat). Their current product REAL/32 is the real-time enhanced successor of the former Multiuser DOS, DR-DOS´ bigger brother for industry use. In contrast to the DR-DOS multitasker (EMM386 /MULTI + TASKMGR), the Multiuser DOS family directly boots into a 32-bit Protected Mode operating system with multiple VMs ("consoles"). Multiuser DOS is by far not as DOS compatible and flexible as the single-user DR-DOS is, but for those applications which /do/ run in this environment, it is a much more stable multitasking platform. The roots of REAL/32 go all the way back to Digital Research´s Concurrent DOS and Concurrent CP/M-86. REAL/32 still runs most traditional DOS software solutions and (some?) CP/M-86 applications, and from what I have heard in other places, this might still be the case for REAL NG. We´ll see... http://www.realng.com http://www.imsltd.com Greetings, Matthias -- ; http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org