ml>> cheap depends on one's perspective...

 SH> And one's income.:-)

that's included in one's perspective...

 ml>> w2k, wnt and newer stuff all manage the system resources
 ml>> differently than win9x ever did... we're speaking of memory and
 ml>> such allocations... i've one program here that is fine under w2k
 ml>> but is a resource hog under w98se... just loading it on w98se eats
 ml>> up 35% of each of the resource catagories that the resource meter
 ml>> shows...

 SH> I do recall that when I ran Win98SE, I liked memory managers.
 SH> I've never bothered with one on my Win2K boxes.

we're not talking about memory managers... we're talking about how
applications allocate memory and how the OS tracks those allocations... not
just memory but it is... system, user, and gdi resources...

 SH>> Does Linux not have a DOS box available?

 ml>> yes and no... yes as in one can install DOSEMU... no in that its
 ml>> not like one might think... its kinda of like an addon in an
 ml>> emulated machine... you have an image of the DOS flavor you want to
 ml>> run and configure DOSEMU to load that in the emulation and run it
 ml>> from there... yes, DRDOS, MSDOS, FreeDOS, whateverDOS...

 SH> Will the emulator run while other applications or processes
 SH> are running?

yes but the question is what are you trying to run in the emulator and is
it able to access the linux side of the house and even is the linux side of
the house able to access the emulated side... not all things are the same
in an emulated environment... AIUI, setting up a telnetable DOS bbs running
in DOSEMU can be a trick...

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