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Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier
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Date: 22 Dec 87 02:06:45 GMT
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In article <45900100@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Just remember what Microsoft said about Windows: Any program that runs
>in Windows will run on our new multitasking DOS. Then they announced
>OS/2, whose windows aren't Microsoft Windows, if you get the meaning.
>They will just announce DOS 3.4 and call it something else.

I just read in a book given to me for Christmas (thanks, Jeff) that
DOS 4.0 is to be a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system for the PC.
It is not a DOS reference (it's a book on Assembly Language) but is
was published fairly recently.



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Brian O'Neill					University of Lowell
boneill@hawk.cs.ulowell.edu

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