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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: DOS, was Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down
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Hi,

On May 14, 8:52=A0am, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Fri, 13 May 2011 22:12:37 +0200, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> a =E9crit=
:> TSRs? =A0:-) =A0 Novell DR-DOS 7 had true multitasking, but it needed a
> > 386. The 286 could only do task switching
>
> Pease, what difference do you see between "true multitasking" and "only =
=A0
> task switching" ? Did you meant preemptive vs cooperative ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_switching