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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Problems running Windows 3.0 under Merge/386
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.115425.28785@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 11:54:25 GMT
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Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <0XV4V2w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
 
[ trying to install Windows 3.0 under Merge....]

>The error message looks like "Merge/386 exception trap error", but
>it's difficult to say exactly what it is becaue the screen immediately
>clears and I'm sitting back at the Unix prompt.
 
I am not really a Merge expert but a former office-mate of mine was one
of the original developers and I seem to recall a conversation once about
Windows 3.0 and the problem was that it really did not want to run in a
pure 8086 mode, that is it would attempt to execute priveleged 386 
instructions. I think this is what causes the above error.

>Has anybody installed Windows 3.0 under Merge/386?  How'd you do it?
>Is this even possible?  SCO, are you listening?
 
Again, I am not 100% positive, but nearly so that this is not possible
given the nature of the Windows code and the way Merge is currently
implemented. Perhaps SCO will give you better news??

Disclaimer: I do not speak for LCC.


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