On July 16, 2018 4:17:36 AM HST, tth <sigfood@dinorama.fr> wrote:
On 07/15/2018 06:01 AM, Harold Lane wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 : [*emphasis* is mine.] 'OS/2 2.0 was touted by IBM as "a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows".[27] It managed this by including fully licensed MS-DOS 5.0 which had been patched and improved upon. For the first time, OS/2 was able to *run* *more* *than* *one* *DOS* *application* *at* *a* *time*. This was so effective that it allowed OS/2 to run a modified copy of Windows 3.0, itself a DOS extender, including Windows 3.0 applications.'
That capability might have made it the 1st multi-tasking OS generally available to the public... No. First general multi-tasking was AmigaOS arounc 1985.
Used to sell the Amiga back then. It was also the first multiple processor hardware available to the public. Macs and IBM PC did everything through the one CPU. Enabled Amigas to run rings around machines with much higher clock speeds. -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail.