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From: millman@garnet.sbi.com (Phillip Millman)
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Subject: Re: DOS emulation on a SPARC Station 1+
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There are three products out there that claim to give 286/386 Dos
emulation on a Sun SPARCstation.  ALthough I make NO promises on the
reliablity of the products mentioned.

1) Puzzle Board.  A bug ridden (according to an ERI rep) S-bus board that
   actually has an Intel chip on it.

2) Splus Software.  Again bug ridden.

Both of the above can be obtained by your local ERI rep.

3) 386/486/Omni Ware by Logicraft (603) 880-0300.  It is a supped up PC
   that contains Intel chips.  It hangs off a TCP/IP network.  You open a DOS
   window and you essentially access the PC.  The PC (I believe) has the
   software that you use.  It is a soft/hardware product.  It is NOT CHEAP.
   Within the PC, four 4-user boards can be placed.  So the initial 4 user
   386/20MHz box will cost $6000 (for the modified PC) and $7200 per 4-user
   board.  

I will be testing the last option because they claim that even Windows 3.0
will work without bugs (Yeah, sure.) As I know more I will post.

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