Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!xylogics!world!madd
From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX runs DOS applications?
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.230638.24070@world.std.com>
Date: 20 Nov 89 23:06:38 GMT
References: <11330002@acf5.NYU.EDU> <1109@bimacs.BITNET>
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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sprecher@bimacs.BITNET (Sprecher yossy) writes:
>>All of the major 80386 UNIX versions (eg AIX, SunOS, 386/ix, ESIX,
>>etc) support the virtual-8086 mode of the 80386

>will they run programs which request expanded memory?

The answer is "it depends".  SunOS does, I don't think any of the
others do.  I certainly couldn't find mention of LIM-EMS in the 386/ix
documentation, which might be the result of poor documentation and
might be the result of a real lacking.  It's tough to tell with
Interactive sometimes.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com