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kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
>So, the question remains, why don't the Microsoft programmers bang
>their brains together and rewrite MSDOS to be fully re-entrant and
>all the routines to use dynamic memory allocation instead of static?

Well the reasons why this wasn't done for MS-DOS 5 and earlier releases
is fairly straight forward:

	a) MS-DOS is a single-user, single-tasking operating system
	b) MS-DOS is big enough as it is

For MS-DOS 6, if it ever comes about, I could see a complete rewrite
of MS-DOS in C, supporting full re-entrency and other wonderful stuff.
It of course would only run on a '286 or better, and require a couple
of megabytes of memory.  Not suprisingly it would look at a lot like
OS/2 (once known internally at MS as DOS 5).

							Ross Ridge

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