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From: btb@mtuxo.UUCP (Bruce Burger)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 & PC Week
Message-ID: <1627@mtuxo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Jun-86 01:53:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  7 01:53:44 1986
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> PC-Week has hit new limits (depths that is) in managing to talk the
> public into believing in a large Blue God!

PC Week defines itself as the weekly newspaper of IBM standard
microcomputing.  My personal guess is that they won't give UNIX a
great deal of press until IBM PC users show substantial interest in
UNIX.  

> Even so for the average PC user there is
> one BIG reason not to simply plug un*x into his PC.  XENIX (and all the
> other unices except the Wendin version) will not run DOS executables.

Until now.  On the AT&T PC 6300 Plus, UNIX has a feature called
"Simul-Task" that lets you run not just DOS executables, but DOS
itself.  UNIX SVR2 runs in protected mode; MS-DOS 3.1 runs in real
mode under the control of UNIX.  

--Bruce Burger     AT&T Information Systems     Freehold, NJ
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