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"Tony Carolla" <carolla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What other multi-tasking PC-based OS was there at the time?
OS/2. Various flavors of Unix (e.g., Xenix). Various products that ran in protected mode on top of DOS.And even the primitive forms of WinDoze that existed at the time were better protected from tasks corrupting each other's memory. (Back then, the primary reason for buying WinDoze was so that you could get HIMEM.SYS, which at the time, only came with WinDoze, but could be used by non-WinDoze applications, like Xerox Ventura Publisher [DOS/GEM Edition -- the REAL Ventura]).
Oh, and technically, AmigaDOS was never "PC-based," since the Amiga, like the original Macintosh, was 68000-based.
-- JHHL
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