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Remembering multi-tasking in MS-DOS: DESQView

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We went through the early and clunky days of multitasking in MS-DOS, but the tools provided natively by Microsoft and shipped on the…

More MS-DOS multitasking: DESQView and QEMM
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  • I remember that well. We used DESQView to run our BBS as well. It was only a single line system, but DESQView let us do other things on the computer without taking down the board.

    Has anyone played with TriDOS? https://github.com/prokushev/tridos - it doesn’t look nearly as featured, but has the advantage of being open-source and I thought might be interesting for a project I have in mind.

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