16 Jul
2018
16 Jul
'18
2:14 p.m.
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.