Subj : multitask or die!
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Charles Angelich
Date : Thu Nov 22 2001 12:02 am

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Hello Roy - 

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
CA>> tasks but it worked on an XT. 

RJT> I was looking for that back in the days when I ran stuff
RJT> on an XT-class machine. 

I bought DoubleDOS and then Desqview with QEMM. There were no
free versions. 

RJT> I ended up moving to a 286 for a while and running
RJT> Desqview instead. I started out with 1M of ram and upped
RJT> it to 4M, only to find out that the _type_ of ram I had on
RJT> that MB wasn't usable by DV, unfortunately. Moving to a
RJT> 386 solved that problem, and things went on from there... 

Yes, in those days everyone lied about capablities. LIM v3 was
next to useless for anything but ramdrives or LOTUS
spreadsheets. 

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

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

I don't think so. DRDOS includes multitasking. I doubt you an
execute a second multitasker on top of it? 

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