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From: carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson)
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Subject: Re: UNIX runs DOS applications?
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Date: 16 Nov 89 13:57:17 GMT
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In article <11330002@acf5.NYU.EDU> mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) writes:
>Is it possible to run DOS sessions from inside UNIX?
>I hear that AIX can, but that it runs only on PS/2 systems.
>Are  there any other UNIX systems that can run DOS applications?

There are a couple of companies that sell a version of UNIX or XENIX that
can run DOS applications.  Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) XENIX is one of
them and I can't recall the other company.  I think the add-in is called
DOS-Merge. Telephone number is (408) 425-7222 for SCO.

From what I recall of the SCO literature, the DOS under UNIX capability 
will work on an 80286, but works much better on the 80386.
This makes sense, since the 80386 memory management allows you to
establish separate virtual machines (more or less) and the entry and
exit from this protected mode is a lot more graceful than in the 80286.

Bruce Carlson