40 yearold computers still in use 89

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Windows 3.0 in the Real and Standard modes used to run in Desqview-X VDMs.

I was talking about a library, though, which enabled MS-DOS programmers to write their own multi-threaded, time-sliced applications in C using then standard compilers. No additional run-time support was needed other than the statically linked executable and MS-DOS.

Someone mentioned PC-Mix, which I am afraid does not ring many bells here. This may well be my problem, of course. I wish I could remember the name of the damned thing I used. I did play with it for a while and it did work as advertised. Time-sliced, multi-threaded apps under MS-DOS in real mode.

Also, if one is talking about time-sliced multi-threading in 8086 real mode then KA9Q should get more than a mention. I was amused when I used telnet to log in to a KPN Telecom supplied Siemens ADSL router a couple of years ago. In spite of the fact that no documentation had been provided for that interface, it was quite clear from the moment I logged in that I was dealing with a descendant of KA9Q. I felt quite at home and managed to disable its annoying DHCP server in only a few minutes.

Giles.