From: "Robert Comer" 

I did something like that too for OS/2 2.1.  We had a PC running DOS that
drove ,via SCSI, a high end postscript ink jet printer.  It could rip the
job as one job, that actually print it as the next job under DOS.  Crashed
all the time too.  Well, I converted it to OS/2 and then it could rip one
job and print another at the same time, while downloading the next
postscript file at the same time, all in separate automated DOS sessions.
It never crashed after that.

About 2 years after I left that company, they called and asked me how I did
that.  Seems my replacement tried to replace it with Win95. 

--
Bob Comer


"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:faLbFtgaXa9N092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article ,
> "Robert Comer"  wrote:
>>
>>A better DOS than DOS. 
>
> Yeah, that too.  Because of it I haven't had to actually boot a system
> to
> DOS for many years, apart from BIOS flash boot diskettes. I even wrote a
> magazine article back in OS/2 2.1 days, describing how to set up 2.1 as a
> multi-tasking DOS (and Windows 3.11 and OS/2 VIO mode) system using only
> 12
> MB of disk space and running in 4 MB of memory with enough room to run 3
> DOS
> sessions without swapping to disk.
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
> "New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
> preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
>    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286

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