Caldera OpenDOS provides a full multi-tasking environment on Pentium, 486, or 386-based harware. This is built into the memory management extensions provided in the operating system, and is accessible for standard un-aware applications when using the Taskmanager (Taskmgr) utility. Programs however can have direct access to create separate threads etc, via the extended Application Programming Interface.
A memory manager that even works on 286-based Pcs, allowing device drivers to reside outside of the regular DOS application area. Drivers or Termonate and stay resident applications can thereby avoid using valuable application memory,
Caldera OpenDOS is the ideal embedded DOS system, designed for straightforward out-of-the-box romming. Caldera will also be making these tools available for prototyping embedded systems. If you wish to use Caldera OpenDOS in your embedded application contact Caldera Sales for more information
Programming Documentation is currently undergoing some rework from the original Novell DOS documentation. Watch this page for availability details for the different value-added programming information.
When complete the Documentation will be downloadable in Corel Envoy format from this page.