Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!chakra!price From: price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Running DOS Programs while under UNIX Keywords: DOS, UNIX, PC Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 01:55:55 GMT References: <4325@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 21 In <4325@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> cen@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Charles E. Newman) writes: > I read once that there are versions of the UNIX operating >system for the IBM-PC family of computers that will let you run DOS >programs while under UNIX. Is this true? If so, which UNIX systems >allow this? Yes It is true. No they do not run bug-free.. At work (USDA Soil Conservation Service) we run AT&T 386's with SysV version 3.2(?). Word Perfect regularly drops keystrokes on my AT&T 605 terminal. The 605 has a PC keyboard hooked to a "normal" terminal. The WP preview option (Shift F7, v) does not work except on the console. We use the AT&T labeled version of VP-IX, which on the whole seems fairly robust - from the console or from the terminals, it is possible to do what on a regular PC would be a machine reboot (Ctl-Alt-Del) and not affect any of the Unix sessions which are occurring concurently with the DOS session. It obviously is a well-programmed use of the 386's virtual 8086 mode! Chad price@fergvax.unl.edu