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From: geller@eli.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you do concurrency?
Message-ID: <184@eli.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 01:32:18 EST
Article-I.D.: eli.184
Posted: Fri Apr  3 01:32:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 18:05:50 EST
References: <1328@erix.UUCP>
Organization: Electric Logic, Inc., Washington, D.C.
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Summary: GEM not multitasking

In article <1328@erix.UUCP>, mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) writes:
> Several systems like MS-WINDOWS or GEM allow users to run several
> processes concurently in MS-DOS. By this I mean allow several processes
> to time share the CPU:

I can't talk for Windows but I'm pretty sure GEM is NOT multitasking.
It allows for several tasks to be resident in the system at one time
but only allows ONE to run at a time. It is more a shell and program
manager. But then again, your definition of "time share" may have
meant just what I said...

David Geller