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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Multitasking version of MS-DOS?
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Date: 15 Feb 90 12:10:47 GMT
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In article <1990Feb14.225742.20401@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) wrote:
}I have heard rumour several times, which people claim to be fact,
}that a while ago, Microsoft released a multitasking version of MS-DOS
}to the European market, in reponse to market competition there.  
}Does anyone know anything about this?  If it does exist, why hasn't it
}ever made it to the west atleast in one form or the other???  Surely
}a distributer would have picked it up and started selling it here?

It was an OEM-only version numbered 4.0 (so much for keeping version numbers
unique...) which had limited multitasking ability in that a specially-written
program could continue running in the background while some other program
was being used in the foreground.

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