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From: mpd@anomaly.SBS.COM (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Problems running Windows 3.0 under Merge/386
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Date: 22 Jan 91 22:57:32 GMT
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Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI  02917
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

>Has anybody installed Windows 3.0 under Merge/386?  How'd you do it?
>Is this even possible?  SCO, are you listening?

The problem is that the WINDOWS kernel detects that you have a 386, and
attempts to put itself into 386 protected mode.

There was a patch posted to SCO.OPENDESKTOP a while ago describing this
problem, and included an "unofficial" patch to get around the problem.

I know someone using Windows 3.0 under ODT-DOS on a regular basis without 
problems.

The only "tradeoff" is that you can only run windows in "real mode", you can't
run it in protected mode under ODT-DOS.

MD
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