From: Bernhard Stiftner Subject: Multitasking: executing some EXE-files (nearly) simultaneously Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Message-ID: <052897bc.015fb25e@usw-ex0110-076.remarq.com> Lines: 15 Bytes: 819 X-Originating-Host: 195.3.96.210 Organization: http://www.remarq.com: The World's Usenet/Discussions Start Here X-Wren-Trace: ePve9vfuqeOoqPv6+K/09/v75Pjq6Lr/+9fz9eqh7L7gveqjoPW9u66ssayk6w== Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:18:41 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.0.2.76 X-Complaints-To: wrenabuse AT remarq DOT com X-Trace: WReNphoon4 954005251 10.0.2.76 (Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:27:31 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:27:31 PST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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. * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is Beautiful