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From: pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Don Pajerek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why unix doesn't catch on
Keywords: multitasking
Message-ID: <207@isctsse.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 22:18:48 GMT
References: <1922@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <101000047@hpcvlx.HP.COM> <199@isctsse.UUCP> <2038@holos0.UUCP>
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In article <2038@holos0.UUCP> lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed) writes:
>In article <199@isctsse.UUCP> pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Donald Pajerek) writes:
>=Previous multitasking approaches have failed in many ways. For example,
>=Windows will only multitask Windows applications; OS/2 will only multitask
>=OS/2 applications.  Besides, any multitasking at all on less than a 386
>=processor is impractical for performance reasons.
>
>Nonsense.  SCO Xenix on a PC-AT type system (80286, 2 meg or so of memory)
>works very nicely indeed.


Will Xenix on a 286 machine multitask DOS applications?


>    -    Len Reed




Don Pajerek