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userbinator 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: An old photo of a large BBS (2022)

It's possible they managed to do some rudimentary multitasking with DESQview (or worse...)

There were even hypervisors available, such as VM/386:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM/386

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/13/re-visiting-vm-386/

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