assets/developer-notes/stephanie-gawroriski/other/i086_dos_generic__dev.mkd

   1 # Intel 8086: DOS Family
   2
   3 Everyone's favorite 16-bit protected mode operating system.
   4
   5 # Cooperative Tasking
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   7 DOS has no threads, it even has no processes. Thus everything will be
   8 multi-tasked.
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  10 # TSRs?
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  12 It is possible to have a fork in the background TSR running which runs the
  13 JVM code. However that would be rather complex, although something similar
  14 would be done with Palm OS.
  15