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In article <1992Aug1.022334.3444@mits.mdata.fi> kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
>Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
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>From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
>Subject: Will future MSDOS's ever multitask?
>Message-ID: <1992Aug1.022334.3444@mits.mdata.fi>
>Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
>References: <1992Jul27.162218.26467@math.ufl.edu> <bs98xs.l3v@wang.com>
>Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1992 02:23:34 GMT
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>I was just talking with a friend of mine about multitasking.
>We were wondering; as it is quite possible to multitask under
>DOS with DESQview (or even Windows), how come this doesn't
>come integrated with MSDOS? Are the Microsoft programmers
>not as good as Quarterdeck programmers, or is it some sort of
>a political issue.

>After a multitasking DOS had been released from Microsoft,
>it might have new support for all kinds of API calls that
>new DOS-programs could use to multitask, just like Windows
>or DV. Why don't they do it? I think a character-based
>multitasking OS would sell plenty among those who don't like
>fancy GUI's. Of course there are unices, but they restrict
>programming graphics and other fancy tricks pretty much.
>And they also take too much space; DESQview can be fitted
>to just a couple of hunded kilobytes. I just keep dreaming
>of a DOS release that would create "a real standard" for
>such an interface/api.

>While waiting for MSDOS 6.0 which will probably bring nothing
>but one or two new external commands, can anyone recommend
>a DOS-binary compatible multitasking operating system? OS/2 
>is too big and it's graphics, I already have Linux but miss 
>MSDOS programs.

>Please comment, and if this newsgroup seems inappropriate,
>reply to some other group...

>(Btw, when I talk about multi-tasking here, I mean whatever
>ways there are to make several programs run at the same
>time under 386... Time-slicing or "sleep"-calls etc.)

At the Windows NT Developers Conference last month we were told that there 
will be a DOS6/Win4 combination that will bring to 16-bit Windows many of 
the new features of Win32 that are not included currently in Win32s, 
including multiple threads.  One of the MS people I talked to said that the 
Thread and Multitasking support that windows uses will be located in the DOS 
kernel.  He wouldn't give any more details though.  A projected release date 
is 'shortly after NT is released' which is Dec '92.

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