Comments on: Multiuser DOS

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:53:01 +0000

I'd suggest trying qemu…

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:49:49 +0000

My company still runs an MRP system on real32. In fact I'm trying to get in to run on VPC 2007 but having problems with the networking aspect.

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:45:21 +0000

I don't see it on their product list..

http://www.phystechsoft.com/ptsdos/products.php

Although the nuclear power plant symbol is a little worrisome that some nuke plant is running DOS. I guess it can easily be run like a RTOS.

By: atar

atar — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:40:40 +0000

Think that there were a multitasking version of PTS-DOS, but can't find any references.

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:55:10 +0000

Qemu may be able to boot it…..!

I have the feeling that there was quite a bit of these things out there… And some still remain. It sure is an interesting aspect of non Unix based Multi User systems for the 80386.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:50:10 +0000

Just had to chime in on this one – I don't know of others, but I ran my business from 1991 – 1999 using PC-MOS with a mix of custom and off-the-shelf software on a 386 machine. I wrote my own email program in Visual Basic called "MosMail" At one point I had as many as 8 terminals running. It was a good system. I was able to preserve the software and I can still boot up the system in VirtualPC, but only in version 4 (prior to Microsoft, when it was a Connectix product). Wow, I miss that system…