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From: jw@astgb1.UUCP (John Woodruff)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.68k,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS/DOS, PC/DOS on Motorola 68K based PC
Message-ID: <164@astgb1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 01:01:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 23 01:01:58 1986
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References: <350@aluxp.UUCP> <1256@lsuc.UUCP>
Organization: Advanced Sys Technology Corp; Greenbelt, MD
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Summary: Need for MS-DOS on Real Workstations

In article <1256@lsuc.UUCP>, jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>      Is this some kind of joke or don't you know what OS's currently
> are available for 68K's?  If not, then I'd advise you to take a look
> around.  We have *much* better OS's for the 68K than MS-DOS.  Furthermore,
> an MS-DOS clone OS wouldn't get you any advantages anyway.  You'd still
> not be able to run PC software.  ...

Unfortunately, that ability is *MANDATORY* for some folk... Our boss
dosen't care if he's using a Univac I, and never liked Unix...
but he *loves* Lotus 123.  As much as I (and Jim, I suspect) dislike
it, the fact is that MS-DOS is a de-facto standard, and a method of
combining the two (so he can use Lotus and I can do real work) is
quite marketable.

Hewlett-Packard has a board that goes into their 68010/020 workstations
containing an 80286, and accompanied by software that arranges for
DOS and HP-UX to share a single filesystem and windowed display.
You get a single box that does both a PC/AT and Unix at the same time.
If it works the way they claim, it's *real neat*... but I've never
seen it.  Call your HP rep for reliable information on this.