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Re: Derivative effects.



On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:46:51AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0800, Day Brown wrote:
> >                                                   [...] DR-DOS, since at
> > least 5, have had taskswitching.
> 
> Well, sort of.  AFAICR, it was a bleeding edge feature, and it felt like
> one.  You just didn't really expect it to work like we expect Linux to
> work.  After all, it was just a DOS.  This is not to start a flamewar,
> but rather to inform the reader the real meaning of the words sometimes
> isn't the obvious one.

Quarterdeck brought out a task-switching system to run on ordinary DOS; ISTR
it got a glowing review in Electronics & Wireless World - they rated it
better than the windoze of the time - but it was text-based rather than full
pretty pictures GUI, and didn't have M$'s backing, so it sunk without trace.
Unfortunately I never got a chance to try it.

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