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From: T.Cornah@shef.ac.uk (A J Cornah)
Subject: Re: tasking under ms-dos
Date: 1997/10/27
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In article <877835542.67snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl>, 
>>multitasking, certainly to the extent of scheduling some other process if
>>I issue a Delay call!!
>
>Aha, yes.
>
>I absolutely agree that delay should put the task to sleep, however in the
>current DOS version it does not do this, because of rather arcane 
interactions
>with DPMI and gdb.
>
>A next DOS version should definitively include this capability.

Does anyone know when such a version is planned or to whom I should 
communicate my need for such facilities?

tony