From:	Bernhard Stiftner <stiftnersoftwareNOstSPAM AT gmx DOT net DOT invalid>
Subject:	Multitasking: executing some EXE-files (nearly) simultaneously
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Date:	Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:18:41 -0800
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A very interesting (=difficult to impossible) topic of
programming with (MS)-DOS is multitasking. My idea was to
execute two or more EXE-files (nearly) at the same time by
reading them manually into RAM, interpreting&executing some
commands, saving all the registers into RAM, then switching
to the other application, restoring its previously saved
CPU registers and executing some commands and so on...
Does anybody have any idea how this could be made work?
PS: I am a native "speaker" of pascal/delphi and I have
just downloaded the DJGPP compiler some days ago and I
began to learn C since that time, so I'm quite new to that
programming language.


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