X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020301080106.009e89e0@mail.dfsi.net> X-Sender: impala AT mail DOT dfsi DOT net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:02:41 -0600 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Dr Who? Subject: Re: Successor of IMS REAL/32 multiuser multitasking DOS on Linux In-Reply-To: <000101c1c10d$24bd35c0$c03dfea9@atlantis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g21E2LS01468 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk hmmm vellie intrisking do you sell it? hmmm what should we do now? looks like little use for me tnx om At 11:20 AM 3/1/02 +0100, you wrote: >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