Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!matrox!altitude!drolet.CAM.ORG!drolet
From: drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,sco.opendesktop
Subject: Re: MS-Windows 3.0 under Xenix and Unix
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.185304.13358@drolet.CAM.ORG>
Date: 17 Mar 91 18:53:04 GMT
References: <9103091053.aa28114@xenitec.on.ca> <27DE7604.38C7@marob.uucp>
Distribution: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Organization: National Optics Institute, Quebec, Canada
Lines: 29

In <27DE7604.38C7@marob.uucp> daveh@marob.uucp (Dave Hammond) writes:

>In article <9103091053.aa28114@xenitec.on.ca>  writes:
>>I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi-
>>ronments, namely
>>
>>1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01;
>>2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge).

>According to SCO support, MS-Windows 3.0 can not work under VP/IX since
>it requires 286 or 386 protected mode and VP/IX provides only virtual
>8086 emulation.

That's true. Out of the box, Windows 3.0 can't run under VP/ix. However,
if you patch the code that determines on which processor Windows is
running so that Windows believes it is running on a 8086, you can
run Windows under both VP/ix and DOS Merge (SCO Open Desktop). I have
the patch here; anybody interested can write to me. If there is sufficient
interest, I will post it.

>--
>Dave Hammond
>daveh@marob.uucp
>uunet!rutgers!phri!marob!daveh
-- 
Jean-Jacques Drolet            |    Snail: 2631 boul. Liegeois, Sainte-Foy
National Optics Institute      |           Quebec, Canada, G1W 1Z5
Phone:         +1 418 657 7006 | Internet: drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG
Home phone:    +1 418 651 3796 |     UUCP: uunet!altitude!drolet!drolet