Great stuff, grew up with DOS and had to switch between EMS and XMS depending on game requirements - but now the gaps how they differ have finally been filled. I do, however, somewhat object to the multitasking claim - DOS is not a multitasking system and thus still popular in some industry because of it being a real-time operating system. There were TSRs to be invoked but that's it. I wonder if you're referring to 3rd-party software like DESQview which pulled such a stunt. And Win9x is a whole different story. But I'd still claim that MS-DOS at its core is a single-tasking OS.
DOS Shell allows you to have multiple programs running at the same time and switch between them with ALT+TAB. I suppose that isn't exactly multitasking because you can only interact with one program at a time. I believe the "inactive" programs are suspended so it's not like a task can continue running the background so to speak
Wish I had this video when I was a child and I was messing with these memories in order to get the games to run :/ (Reckless)
Very good explanation!
Nice stuff!
Great stuff, grew up with DOS and had to switch between EMS and XMS depending on game requirements - but now the gaps how they differ have finally been filled.
I do, however, somewhat object to the multitasking claim - DOS is not a multitasking system and thus still popular in some industry because of it being a real-time operating system. There were TSRs to be invoked but that's it. I wonder if you're referring to 3rd-party software like DESQview which pulled such a stunt. And Win9x is a whole different story. But I'd still claim that MS-DOS at its core is a single-tasking OS.
DOS Shell allows you to have multiple programs running at the same time and switch between them with ALT+TAB. I suppose that isn't exactly multitasking because you can only interact with one program at a time. I believe the "inactive" programs are suspended so it's not like a task can continue running the background so to speak
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