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From: resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Ms-Dos Source
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.150904.6241@netcom.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 91 15:09:04 GMT
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In article <91107.143308IO92203@MAINE.BITNET> IO92203@MAINE.BITNET (Scott Maxell) writes:
>Ogden Dumas writes:
>>        Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the Ms-Dos source?  I
>>am trying to turn my PC into a multi task enviroment and need to rip apart
>>Ms-Dos.  Thanx
> 
>   You can't get the source code to DOS, it's copyrighted material. What
>type of computer are you trying to multitask? Anything below a '386
>doesn't allow multitasking anyway. It would be nearly impossible to make
>DOS capable of multitasking anyway.
> 

Please explain this. MS Windows multi-tasks. DESQview Multi-tasks, So does
double DOS. These environments all run on 8086 processors, although most
will take advantage of new chips. 

You don't need an 80386 to multi-task. In fact, you don't need a chip designed
for multi-tasking to multi-task. True preemptive tasking can be done
(slowly) on an 8086. Although MS DOS doesn't inherently support multi-tasking,
there are things which can be done to make it multi-task as well. 

Where do you get your information from?



- Steve

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