Subj : multitask or die!
To   : Charles Angelich
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Wed Nov 21 2001 08:26 pm

Charles Angelich wrote in a message to David Drummond:

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DD>>> Linux provides me with all of the tinkering I require,
DD>>> plus it has the added functionality that DOS did not
DD>>> provide. 

CA>> Yes, I've read that many times. What in particular were
CA>> you unable to do in DOS that LINUX does for you now? 

DD> Multiple applications running simultaenously for one. 

 CA> I started using IBM computers with DoubleDOS. Only two tasks but it
 CA> worked on an XT. 

I was looking for that back in the days when I ran stuff on an XT-class 
machine.  I ended up moving to a 286 for a while and running Desqview instead. 
I started out with 1M of ram and upped it to 4M,  only to find out that the 
_type_ of ram I had on that MB wasn't usable by DV,  unfortunately.  Moving to 
a 386 solved that problem,  and things went on from there...

 CA> When the company upgraded to an 80386 I moved to Desqview. That 
 CA> worked well enough most of the time. The machine multitasked 24/7 
 CA> monitoring the PBX and spitting out reports on same.

That's _still_ what I'm working with here.  You mention DRDOS in another post. 
Will DV be usable with that as an underlying OS?  If so,  then I can continue 
what I have going here,  and tie the rest of the LAN into it.

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