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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for multi-tasking PC applications/OS's
Message-ID: <899@usl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 13:27:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  5 13:27:51 1986
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In article <2192@milano.UUCP> tsmith@milano.UUCP writes:
>In article <76@rdlvax.UUCP>, salzman@rdlvax.UUCP (Gumby) writes:
>> 
>> I am looking for a program or an operating system for a PC (XT/AT) that
>> will allow multiple applications to be run concurrently. I'm aware of a few
>> things available that allow this capabilty, from Xenix for the AT to
>> Microsoft Windows and similar applications. Anything that will allow
>> multiple (meaning 2 or more) applications to run on a PC at once is
>> basically what I need. To be more specific it needs to run an application
>> that can accept interrupts while it's not the foreground process (e.g. like
>> running something in the background on Unix, not putting it to sleep). This
>> application would, for instance, be like communications software that
>> could listen to the RS-232 port and transfer data - even while it's in
>> background.

Hmm. Sounds to me like you want to make your IBM PC look like an
Amiga!
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