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From: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: MSDOS/UNIX MACHINE ??
Message-ID: <162@ho95e.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 12:36:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: ho95e.162
Posted: Fri Sep 13 12:36:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 01:04:07 EDT
References: <750@gitpyr.UUCP> <182@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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> In article <750@gitpyr.UUCP> kevin@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin Campbell) writes:
> >I have a friend who is in need of some information, and he doesn't have 
> >access to USENET.
> >  He wants to know if there is a micro that supports MSDOS *and* UNIX?
> >(or possibly Xenix).. Also, what are the basic differences between
> >Unix & Xenix?
Do you mean "The hardware can do MSDOS or UNIX depending on what data is on
your disks" (in which case almost any PC compatible will do", or
	"You can have MSDOS stuff and UNIX stuff of the same disk, but
only one OS is active at a time" (VENIX-86 will handle this, for PC
compatibles; you can partition a hard disk so VENIX gets 8 meg and MSDOS gets
2 Meg.  Alternatively, for most PC UNIX versions, you can give UNIX the
entire disk, and boot/run from floppies if you want MSDOS.  Or you could get
a Bernoulli Box or Sunflower 10-Meg removable disk, and pop in the disk for
whichever OS you feel like running.)
	Or do you mean something like "You boot up UNIX, but if you
want to run an MSDOS application while UNIX is active you can".  There are
several boards made for this sort of thing (I don't know their names) like
68000 boards that plug into a PC bus and run UNIX, or 80*86 boards that
plug into the PC bus and run MSDOS (normally faster than a vanilla IBM-PC)
which would probably let you run UNIX on the main PC and MSDOS on the add-on.
But basically you're talking weird here.
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## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs


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