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From: steve@ea.UUCP
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Subject: Re: att 6300+ UNIX & OS-MERGE
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 21:59:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 21:59:00 1986
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Nf-From: ea.UUCP!steve    Mar  1 20:59:00 1986


I have used OS Merge on the 6300+ very briefly. It features a user agent
much like the one on the UNIX PCs that is very pretty with a color monitor.
Do plan on getting plenty of memory though... between the two os's it should
be good for a single user with a meg but will definately require more if you
plan to run several. It looks like a VERY nice workstation. I was able to run
lotus (for instance) simply by selecting an object from a window. It seems to
integrate the to systems quite nicely... and allows you to move msdos files
about in the UNIX filesystem without trouble. The usual hitch applies to
text files (msdos uses crlf terminators with 128 byte records)... The folks
who wrote this (locus) provided to conversion programs; dos2unix and
unix2dos. These will be familiar to people who have used PC Interface, which
I should add is a VERY slick tool for people who want MSDOS and UNIX and
a DISK server all on their PC. OS Merge has essentially the same effect but
does it all more cleanly and doesn't require a unix host or an ethernet. 

It is all accomplished by memory mapping and protection hardware on the
6300+... So don't plan on seeing this run on other 80286 micros. The memory
mapping hardware does *magic* to assure that MSDOS programs see things that
they normally expect (including the interrupt vectors!).


   Steve Blasingame
   AT&T Oklahoma City
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