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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DEC Rainbow 100 PC
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.170204.18892@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 17:02:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb10.152807.11084@news.iastate.edu> jdwhite@iastate.edu (White Jason David) writes:
>
>The DEC Rainbow is NOT IBM compatible. 

True. But is IS an MS-DOS computer.


>While you may be able to read and
>write to MS-DOS disks, you will not be able to use any IBM software on your
>machine. 



That is NOT true - any program that uses ONLY MS-DOS system calls and
no bios call or direct screen writes will work. The compiled version of
the Adventure game I have posted is supposed to run, and apparently does,
according to one Dec engineer who tried it.


Doug McDonald