multitasking in dos

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slenkar (Posted 2011) [#1]

does anyone know of a free dos program or dos version that does multitasking? (and how to use it)

Pengwin (Posted 2011) [#2]

I believe DR-DOS is multitasking, and I think it is free, but you will have to check.

xlsior (Posted 2011) [#3]

As far as I know, MS-DOS does doesn't do true multitasking, except for the appearance of multitasking when it comes to TSR (Terminate-and-Stay-Resident) programs. (Those allow a program to temporarily come back to life after an interrupt or keypress gets triggered) No idea about alternate DOSes, though.

Perturbatio (Posted 2011) [#4]

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS Last edited 2011

Shortwind (Posted 2011) [#5]

This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview Um, why are you working in DOS? Just curious...

slenkar (Posted 2011) [#6]

im emulating it on the nintendo DS for games :) I like to read the manual and get copy protection codes and quest logs while im playing the game instead of printing it all out. The emulator only emulates a 086 or 286 so desqview doesnt work yet

D4NM4N (Posted 2011) [#7]

MUDOS did multitasking and multiuser. It was a little Unixy in that respect (but not near as good) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS Last edited 2011