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From: nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dos/TSR/Multitasking interaction
Message-ID: <8424@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 88 21:38:23 GMT
References: <2418@umd5.umd.edu> <920@unccvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <920@unccvax.UUCP> mru@unccvax.UUCP (markus ruppel) writes:
>Right, everybody has, mainly because DOS IS NOT DESIGNED TO MULTI-
>TASK !!!!! Why don't you switch to a real multitasking and multi-
>user system like Concurrent DOS made by Digital Research, Inc. ?

I'm not the original poster, but I think I may have a good answer for
you. When a company makes a product for others to use, they'd like
not to require the user to by another piece of software he wouldn't
otherwise want. In this case, the user's already got MS-DOS, and
so the developer develops his product for DOS, and doesn't require
the user to buy and install Concurrent Dos or some other system.
-- 
				Nathan Glasser
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