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   "John Ames"  wrote in message   
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   > And while MS-DOS can certainly be used for classic batch processing, it   
   > has practically no support for multitasking, which was already a thing   
   >   
   > So, in short: there was no mainframe hardware platform that it could be   
   > ported to back in the day, and it's not well-suited for that use case.   
   > One certainly *could* get it running on, say, a large x86 cluster as a   
   > novelty, but it's not a huge surprise that, thus far, nobody has been   
   > thus inclined.   
      
   I'm not familiar with "clusters". Could you tell me what this   
   "novelty" port would look like?   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
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