Message-ID: <3A311832.EE3F1C76@zxblr2f.grbl> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 18:19:46 +0100 From: Gautier Organization: Maths - Uni =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neuch=E2tel?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: multitasking References: <90qs8i$hj5$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: mac13-32.unine.ch X-Trace: 8 Dec 2000 18:19:52 +0100, mac13-32.unine.ch Lines: 30 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Gecko23: > Well, this would be possible under a multi-tasking DPMI host, but > neither CWSDPMI or the DPMI emulation under win32 provide this kind of > functionality. As for running 2 .EXEs "at the same time" Win32 seems to fit - hum, even Win 3.1, isn't it ? > AFAIK, there are no free multi-tasking DPMI servers available, in fact > the only one I can think of at all is OS/2, but thats more than just a > DPMI server. :) What about DR-DOS that you can d'load, that provides multitasking _and_ in its la(tes)t version 7.03 a fully 32-bit DPMI server ?... > Unfortunately, DPMI arrived too late on the scene, and DOS was rapidly > eclipsed by Windows, so developments in that area have been stagnant > for a long, long time. (with the exception of CWSDPMI of course) ... and DR-DOS - which BTW has restarted to stagnate after jan-1999 :-\. > There is of course nothing preventing you from writing a multi-tasking > DPMI server, but that's going to be a big job. If you read the ~250 KB html documentation of DR-DOS multi+dpmi API it seems indeed a fair load of work to create... ______________________________________________________ Gautier -- http://members.nbci.com/gdemont/gsoft.htm