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From: ittfb@dcatla.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: opinions on DOS enhancers?
Message-ID: <195@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 07:55:34 EST
Article-I.D.: dcatla.195
Posted: Mon Mar 23 07:55:34 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Mar-87 04:06:51 EST
References: <312@slovax.UUCP> <75800028@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: ittfb@dcatla.UUCP (Thomas F. Blakely)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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In article <75800028@uiucdcsp> bentrup@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>out XENIX/UNIX/etcIX).  I've seen an add for QNX by Quantum Software in
>Ottawa, Canada.  Anybody have any experience with it?  What I'm looking for

I've used QNX for about 4 years now.  It's a pretty neat system in it's own
right, but it's not a multitasking MS-DOS.  It *will* run MS-DOS as a QNX
task, in background or foreground, but only one MS-DOS task per machine is
allowed (not surprising given the memory requirements of most DOS applica-
tions).  Even doing this requires an extra-cost piece of software, QDOS2.
If you want a small, fast, versatile multitasking environment on your PC
(QNX has shared libraries, will run on a single floppy PC with 128k) QNX
is a good bet, as long as you're not interested in compatability with MS-
DOS or even Un*x.  It'll read/write MS-DOS disks, but it ain't MS-DOS.
Write me if you want more information or have specific questions.

Tom Blakely
(404)442-4866
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