Multitasking
It's a dark art they say :twisted: I'm going to put forth an idea for you people to crunch on. In old MS-DOS (my favourite thing to compare DEX4U to :D), you could run Windows (3.x and later 95 :D) which would do this odd thing called MULTITASKING. Now my question and source of debate/conversation/etc. is: does DEX4U plan to have any form of multitasking? If so, how and what methods of processor sharing are in consideration? Cheers, DH.

Even dos had multitasking (TSR), As for multitasking in Dex4u, it not that multitasking is so hard to do, most of our members could have Dex4u multitasking, in less than a week. Here at Dex4u, we know what is needed to make a successfully OS and that is to do some thing that people want, that you can not do in any other OS, i can use linux or xp for most things, they are fine for desktops, But there is a need for a small, fast singal tasking OS, but unlike dos you can use more than 1MB of memory, have lots of built in functions and be able to use modern hardware usb, dvd,etc. Look at this example M$ have all the money in the world, but when they made the xbox OS, they made a modern dos, or Dex4u http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1156389,00.asp You would not say the xbox is backward or old design would, so to answer your ?, i have ask Dex4u members do you want Dex4u to be multitasking and like me they say no, not for the time being. Here is multitasking in less than 512bytes: http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=2164&start=100 you need to get "nanoos2.zip". So in aswer to your ?, it will not be added to the kernel, but there maybe a multitasking ver of say "gui.dex" made.

as Dex4u is so small and uses so few resources, then leaves you with complete control of the system... Multi-tasking can be completely on the application level. Perhaps a group of supporting functions with re-entrant code will be developed, and the point of Dex4u is to be simple and efficient, like old DOS