January 30, 2010

MS-DOS is multitasking !

MS-DOS was a single tasking single user Operating System for PCs. Right ?
MS-Windows is multi tasking multi user OS. right ?

Ok. But some of you would remember that the (not so ) humble MS-DOS was in effect multi tasking, had you used Framework III.


 
 
 

Framework was an Office suite, working on MS-DOS. It had a Word-processor, a Spreadsheet, a Database package, a Presentation package, and with a built in programming language 'FRED'.
You could use more than one of these simultaneously, on your DOS machine. Each application was a frame (a window ).  A virtual multitasking !!  Remember, this was even before MS-Windows appeared.

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