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From: woan@excelsior (Ronald S Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: The "pcsim" command for a DOS environment ??
Keywords: 286 clone on a X-Window
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Date: 10 Jan 91 16:10:32 GMT
References: <12040@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
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In article <12040@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, haines@debussy.cs.colostate.edu
(Matt Haines) writes:
Matt> So, does anyone know anything about pcsim?  Can you run DOS
Matt> applications under this thing?  Can you get to DOS commands, or
Matt> are you stuck in the BASIC interpreter?  BTW, the manual page is
Matt> about as useful as ...

pcsim gives you a VGA 286 (no protected mode) MSDOS machine in an
X-Window or on the console depending on what you have... It is
documented very well under info (under How to install the PCSimulator
Licensed Program)... You get cassette basic of old by default, just
like on the IBM AT and PC of olden days. You have to create a disk
file or directory to simulate a hard disk on your UNIX file system and
tell it to install or boot DOS from the floppy.

DOS System disk in diskette drive:

touch someFilename
pcsim -A 3 -C someFilename
fdisk
select C: 001 US

will make it bootable from the simulated hard drive...

There are also startup flags to put it in VGA mode and a startup file
so RTFM..

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