[ale] multi tasking question

[John Cole]

Howdy all!

Does anyone even have a copy of GeoWorks?  I've been looking for it for a
long time.  I've seen it posted a couple times to Usenet and the only copies
I got were incompletes.  Haven't gotten around to looking for it again.

Thanks,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Hirsch [mailto:mhirsch at nubridges.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:49 AM
To: Vernard Martin; Stephen Turner
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] multi tasking question

> The information that you read is incorrect. It is possibly for an OS
> to multi-task on a 386 and higher.

In fact, it is possible for an OS to multitask on an 8088 and higher, 
but the CPU doesn't help.  On a 386 and higher the CPU has built in 
support for multitasking.  Linux requires a 386, though there was once 
a project to backport it to the 286.

Anyone else ever see the OS/GUI called "GeoWorks" way back when?  It was 
a preemptively scheduled, multitasking, object oriented OS/windowing 
system that run on any DOS system with 640K of RAM.  It was truly 
amazing what it could do.  I'd say it rivaled KDE in its capabilitied 
and this was 10 years ago.  Of course, it got trounced by Windows 3.0 
which came out about the same time.

--Michael
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