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From: bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Xenix VP/IX problem
Summary: Windows 286 DOES run under VP/IX
Message-ID: <182@mdi386.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 15:10:41 GMT
References: <-538036261@cpl-mfh.UUCP> <115@embassy.UUCP> <330@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US>
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Organization: Wells Computer Systems Corp., Levittown, Pa. 19058
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In article <330@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US>, frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) writes:
> In article <115@embassy.UUCP> lance@embassy.UUCP (Lance N. Antrim) writes:
> > Has anyone succeeded in running WP 5.0 under VP/ix?  If so, did
> > you have to do anything  beyond the normal installation to get it
> > running? 
> I'm not familiar with WP, but is it possible they've used '286
> code therein?  VP/ix only emulates 8086, right?  Windows '[23]86
> won't run for that reason, which leaves out things like Excel.

I have run Samna AMI, which is a Windows based WP under XENIX386 2.2.3, and
it works fine.  In fact, it is much faster than on my 10mhz 80286 machine.

(I think the disk cache makes the difference).  I have also run WP5.0 under
Xenix.  To do this, I had to put WP on the DOS partition, and it would
then work.  It seems that WP MUST run on a DOS filesystem, not an emulated
DOS filesystem.  I set this up as "D:" drive, cd to D, and then run WP.

I don't know that I am doing anything else special.. Oh Yeh, I had to chown
the DOS partition to the group that runs VPIX, and chmod the DOS partition
to rwx for group.

bruce
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