[ale] multi tasking question

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:00 am, John Cole wrote:
> 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.

I _think_ I've still got the floppies somewhere.  I used to use in in 
dosemu as my office suite.  Now that Linux has matured a bit that isn't 
necessary, but I don't think I tossed it.

--Michael

> Thanks,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Hirsch [mailto:mhirsch at nubridges.com]
> 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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