Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:39:26 PDT
From: Peter Crowley <pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com>
To: pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: GO32 multitasking

>>>>We are thinking of changing GO32 to support multitasking (preemptive).
>>>
>>>Why not just use DESQview/X?  It has all that already.

>>Right, but one has to buy it. Also, we are not interested in all that
>>complexity, just a simple environment with multitasking.

>Simple DV, which is availble for about $60, will do what you want.
>(With no muss, fuss, or GUIs...)

Here is my wish list for GO32:
1) Multithreading (probably through mutliple TSSs).
2) fork().
3) signals.
4) Port GDB.
5) Dynamic Link Libraries.
6) Make GO32 (and EMU387) reentrant and have the stub look to see if they are
already present.

Peter Crowley
Quarterdeck Offices Systems