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From: sprecher@bimacs.BITNET (Sprecher yossy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX runs DOS applications?
Message-ID: <1109@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 19 Nov 89 10:50:42 GMT
References: <11330002@acf5.NYU.EDU>
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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To: madd@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <1989Nov14.143339.20288@world.std.com>

In article <1989Nov14.143339.20288@world.std.com> you write:
>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?
>
>All of the major 80386 UNIX versions (eg AIX, SunOS, 386/ix, ESIX,
>etc) support the virtual-8086 mode of the 80386 and run most
>applications that don't directly access the hardware.  Even some
>applications which access the hardware will run, but generally not too
>fast.
>
>jim frost
>software tool & die     "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s
>madd@std.com            +1 617-739-WRLD  24hrs {3,12,24}00bps

will they run programs which request expanded memory?

yossi sprecher