Both IBM and Microsoft fully realized the problems inherent in the real-mode DOS architecture and worked on solutions throughout early and mid-80's. There were two significant products that made it to the retail shelves:
IBM TopView. This was a text-mode multitasking shell for DOS ...
I was an intern at IBM when TopView was brought in by the original devs to demo to the execs.
I remember being dumb struck that you could copy from one window and paste it into another. That was just science-fiction AFAIWC.
IBM TopView. This was a text-mode multitasking shell for DOS ...
I was an intern at IBM when TopView was brought in by the original devs to demo to the execs.
I remember being dumb struck that you could copy from one window and paste it into another. That was just science-fiction AFAIWC.