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Comment by h2odragon

Graphics. Managers wanted "windowing systems" as well as multitasking.

People who just wanted mutitasking DOS had DesqView and ... "concurrent"? was it? i forget.

I wrote TSR's that snatched cycles off the timer interrupt and rode 21h for opportunity to flush buffers to/from disk.

parent h2odragon 2 years ago

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