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From:	"Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Successor of IMS REAL/32 multiuser multitasking DOS on Linux
Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:20:09 +0100
Organization:	University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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I thought this might be interesting to some of you:

Intelligent Micro Software is developing a successor of their
IMS REAL/32 7.92 operating system, which will be called REAL NG
("next generation"???) and will run under Linux (RedHat).

Their current product REAL/32 is the real-time enhanced successor
of the former Multiuser DOS, DR-DOS´ bigger brother for industry
use. In contrast to the DR-DOS multitasker (EMM386 /MULTI + TASKMGR),
the Multiuser DOS family directly boots into a 32-bit Protected Mode
operating system with multiple VMs ("consoles"). Multiuser DOS
is by far not as DOS compatible and flexible as the single-user
DR-DOS is, but for those applications which /do/ run in this
environment, it is a much more stable multitasking platform.

The roots of REAL/32 go all the way back to Digital Research´s
Concurrent DOS and Concurrent CP/M-86. REAL/32 still runs most
traditional DOS software solutions and (some?) CP/M-86 applications,
and from what I have heard in other places, this might still be
the case for REAL NG. We´ll see...

 http://www.realng.com
 http://www.imsltd.com

Greetings,

 Matthias

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