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From: mru@unccvax.UUCP (Markus Ruppel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dos/TSR/Multitasking interaction
Message-ID: <937@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 01:01:23 GMT
References: <8424@eddie.MIT.EDU> >
Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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in article <8424@eddie.MIT.EDU>, nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser) says:
| 
| In article <920@unccvax.UUCP> I write: 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
| fnord				nathan@{mit-eddie.uucp, xx.lcs.mit.edu}

But that always depends on the amount of trouble you have to go through 
to get software to do what it was not designed to do.
I prefer to cut my development time which is more valuable than the cost
of for example Concurrent DOS ( or an equivalent ( is there any ??? :-))
system ).

Markus Ruppel l

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