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From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Open Desktop on 386/ix planned ?
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.170822.25288@egsner.cirr.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 17:08:22 GMT
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In article <1990Mar29.044535.15849@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
 srg@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Steven R Gerber) writes:
- In article <2209.2610e52c@cc.helsinki.fi> stickler@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
- >> ........I know they've got a DOS emulator
- >> (VP/ix?) [why anyone would want this is left as a puzzle for the reader].
- >
- >The DOS emulator is NOT VP/ix, but Merge 386 and it is 
- >much much much better than VP/ix. [...] A very solid and amazing peice of
- >software. 
- 
- I'm not absolutely sure BUT ...
- I just spoke to Interactive today and they said it's VP/ix.

        Interactives DOS emulator is called VP/ix.  Locus' DOS emulator
is called DOSMerge.  Open Desktop by SCO is going to ship DOSMerge,
since it can properly live within an X window.  SCO currently ships
VP/ix to run on Xenix/386.

        I too have found DOSMerge (an old version 1.1.3, I believe, on
Microport/386) to be much better than VP/ix, especially as a command
line environment for DOS development.
-- 
Eric Schnoebelen		eric@cirr.com		schnoeb@convex.com
	... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in
		terror, and you would not have been informed.