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In article <1992Aug13.231518.18981@sequent.com> georged@sequent.com (George Dolbier) writes:
>I'm sorry you must have DOS confused with an operating system. DOS lacks
>MAJOR functinoality that would allow anyone/anything to run in parallel.
>Some of the functionality being parallel process support, and virtual memory 
>management.

You are correct here.

>Please remember that dos is just a very well written system monitor. If
>you want multi tasking for your pc, try unix or windows/NT.

Windows/NT might be difficult to try since it is still in alpha.
Although you can get it, it might be useless without ANY installed
base of NT applications.  DOS support, as I understand it, is still
very buggy.

>(Don't nobody give me any flack about windows or os/2 they just don't cut it)

Windows is OK for running DOS programs in the background, but it
certainly doesn't make a GOOD multitasker.  OS/2 is rather stable, and
I am surprised to hear that it "doesn't cut it".  I have used OS/2
v1.3 for a while and it is a very robust operating system.  You can
easily start a process in the background by launching it from the
manager or a command prompt.  You can also detach processes which
don't require user input to run in the background just like the Unix
&.  OS/2 v2.0 extends some of this functionality to DOS.  Although I
don't think there is a DETACH command which works with DOS apps.

Could you describe some of the failings you see with OS/2 ?


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