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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: tasking under ms-dos
Date: 1997/10/26
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>jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl writes:

>>I am not sure why you would expect your output to be interleaved, as
>>DOS does not do multi-tasking.

>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.

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