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From: herder@myab.se (Jan Herder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.100527.17196@myab.se>
Date: 23 Apr 91 10:05:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.045408.15395@agate.berkeley.edu> <3669@sixhub.UUCP> <1991Apr14.230407.5019@jwt.UUCP>
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In article <1991Apr14.230407.5019@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>
>This is the second time I've seen someone claim there was a limit of four
>virtual machines in V86 mode.  I wonder where this particular urban legend
>got its start?  Does one of the DOS multitaskers have a limit of four
>concurrent tasks?

Concurrent DOS, Digital Research combination of CCP/M and DOS had the
possibility of running four different DOS sessions each connected to a
virtual terminal you could switch between. This was done on a 808[86].
This is the only one I knew of.

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