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From: fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix running DOS applications on 80286
Message-ID: <2039@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 19:30:46 GMT
References: <4718@xenna.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <4718@xenna.Encore.COM> paradis@pinocchio.encore.com (Jim Paradis) writes:
>	(1) Anybody have any experiences with Microport Xenix
>	and/or Dos Merge on the 286?
Yes - I have made a lot of BAD experiences with it. I've used Microports
DOS/Merge 286 and very often the DOS Prg's have shutdown the WHOLE system,
because sometimes the DOS Prg's use the same memory page. The 286 is not able
to protect the Unix memory from the DOS memory. The DOS applications are trying
to use the same memory.
SCO has not a DOS/Merge for the 286 because of this reason. 

-Axel
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