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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Running TCP/IP Software under MS Wi
Message-ID: <45900201@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 89 15:00:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Feb  8 09:00:00 1989



>In general, Windows/386 will let you do anything in a window (regarding DOS)
>that you wish.  The only program that we have been able to find that cannot
>run in a window is SoftermPC, a communication package which seems to tie into
>almost every interrupt on the machine.  Just for fun, I tried to run a video
>game in a window -- worked fine... much to my suprise!

If you get a public domain "de-copy-protect" program for it, early
versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator for the ega (NOT VGA) will
run on a PS-2 model 80 under windows 386(*), but not otherwise. This
is truly amazing.

* in a window only