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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: R.I.P. Byte
Message-ID: <1180@scolex>
Date: 3 Sep 88 05:11:02 GMT
References: <402@mfgfoc.UUCP> <674@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <674@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <402@mfgfoc.UUCP> exodus@mfgfoc.UUCP (Greg Onufer) writes:
>You have misrepresented him. So here, in his own words, he is:

>	This whole situation puzzles me.  I've had a dozen people
>	try to explain why you can't simply fire up Unix and use
>	it as the master operating system to run multiple DOS
>	programs, and the usual answer is `You can, but nobody's
>	done it.' None of them can answer the next question."

[that was Pournelle, this is Bill]
>	1) There does not seem to exist a good way to run
>	   arbitrary DOS programs on a Unix box.  Or more than
>	   one of them at a time, as a good Unix ought to.
>Of them, 1) seems to have changed with
>the introduction of the 386i;

First, I must point out that I am slightly biased (working for a company
that sells what I'm talking about tends to influence my words 8-)).
Under XENIX '386 (whatever release it is; I forget exactly which version has
a good vpix support), you can run multiple copies of VP/ix, which is,
basicly, an '86 emulator (using the V86 mode) (as opposed to just an MS-DOS
emulator).  I have run multiple copies of DOS-based programs, and, while I
don't want to hack on the code for it, I don't mind using VP/ix (at least, I
dislike using it as much as I dislike using DOS, so I guess it's just as
good as MS-DOS 8-)).

>novavax!proxftl!bill


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