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jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:

>In article <1993Jan22.110539.20680@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> loescher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephan Loescher) writes:
>>In article <1jn040INN95i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>, villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
>>|> In article <1993Jan21.141821.13561@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> loescher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stephan Loescher) writes:
>>|> >I'm looking for a possibility to run XCOPY, COPY, MOVE, or other DOS-programs
>>|> >in the background (multitasking)

>>|> Get OS/2.

>>I do not have enough RAM ! (only 4 Megs)
>>And I don't want to buy more!

>You will find that OS/2 2.1  will run on a 4 meg machine fairly well.  If
>you're serious, monitor comp.os.os2.misc or contact me...I'll point you to
>someone who's running it in 4MB.

You could also get Desqview 386 (assuming you have a 386). Total memory
overhead for this is about 200k, so it will run two full-size (640k)
DOS shells comfortably in 2MB.

Ian
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