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- Multitasking involves splitting the available memory of your PC into 2 or
- more individual "regions" or partitions. Let's take a simple multitasking
- program and look at how it works; a shareware multitasker available on
- most BBS systems by the name of multask.arc or mts.arc.
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- Upon execution of this program, mts splits your computer's memory into
- 2 regions and pretends that each region is a standalone DOS partition,
- each sharing your computer's most precious resource: the CPU. (We'll
- refer to these partitions as partition A and B). Any multitasker will
- also provide a means for the user to "swap" between partitions via a key
- sequence like <ALT-ESC>.
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- Now you have the means of executing 2 programs "simultaneously". For
- instance you could begin the sorting of a data base in the A partition,
- then "swap" to the B partition via the swap key sequence and call your
- favorite BBS system (Home Dba right?).
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