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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier - DOS 4.x
Message-ID: <877@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 16:00:21 GMT
References: <839@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <45900100@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <2273@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <817@ima.ISC.COM> <276@bernina.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Information Systems Ltd., St. Laurent - Que., Canada
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Posted: Mon Jan 11 11:00:21 1988

In article <276@bernina.UUCP> zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen) writes:
>In article <817@ima.ISC.COM> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes:
>>DOS 4.x has been out for a while but as far as I can tell is only sold in
>>Europe.  It's a multitasking version of DOS, sort of like Digital Research's
>
>MS-DOS 4.x is an OEM version of MS-DOS 3.x. No operating system was ever
>sold as MS-DOS 4.x, not even here in Europe.

Not speculation, fact:

MSDos 4.0 was/is the "multitasking" version of Dos "released" to support
MSNet 2.0.

The multitasking is only as required to handle the asynchronous tasks of
the network support, no multi-tasking is available at the applications
level.

I believe MS never released it at the retail level but they did supply a
version of it to OEM's (including ourselves).

We as an organisation do supply this product to our customers in Europe.

Ray Dunn.  ..philabs!micomvax!ray

Disclaimer: The above are personal opinions and not necessarily that of my
            employer, and, to the best of my knowledge, contains information
            proprietary to neither my employer nor any other organisation.