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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why Windows can't Multitask DOS
Keywords: info
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.054811.6888@world.std.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 05:48:11 GMT
References: <1990Jul1.193551.6345@sunee.waterloo.edu> <1990Jul2.000340.27198@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
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In article <1990Jul2.000340.27198@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> ccant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes:
>In <1990Jul1.193551.6345@sunee.waterloo.edu> gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler) writes:
>
>>Many people have posted with all sorts of wild ideas about why
>>Windows can't multitask, or how it DOES multitask.
>

cogent explaination deleted...

>
>Then why don't they provide a more reasonable version of DOS along with
>windows itself.  Everything that DOS does can be done in a multitasking
>environment.  I have seen heaps of TSR utilities that do DOS-functions (like
>formating etc) while allowing you to continue working.
>
>Does anyone know if the version of DOS that is to be shipped in Microsofts
>planned "merging of DOS and Windows" will allow Windows to multitask it ?
>If it isn't planned now, maybe someone in Microsoft should seriously start
>considering it.
>

The solution you are looking for is called OS/2 v2.0.

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