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Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 13:16
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strops@fastlane.net (Jay Urbanski) wrote:
>
>And Windows does do that with DOS sessions.   Make a simple batch file that
>does a directory listing, then calls itself.   Open two DOS sessions, watch
>them both scroll by simultaneously.
>

mmm...  Not quite the same thing, and maybe I should perform the following
experiment -- but I'll just leave it to someone else.

What happens if you write a small program which doesn't do any I/O (e.g.
a tight loop) and put that in two DOS windows?

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