MS-DOS version (was: What's best to do?? classically speaking

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Jun 24 20:46:55 2001

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> Admittedly, if you are going to have only one computer, and want it to
> serve multiple purposes, then a GUI, multitasking, and verbose file names
> might be useful. (BTW, DOS 5.00 DID have a poor quality GUI, called
> WIN3.1x)
>
> [...]

What? No one has mentioned the task-switching DOSSHELL yet? It's not
multitasking, but it did let you switch between the program you ran, and
it did offer a GUI of sorts.

-brian.
Received on Sun Jun 24 2001 - 20:46:55 BST