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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Running MS/PC-DOS under Unix/Xenix
Keywords: Xenix, MS/PC-DOS, applications, etc
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Date: 1 May 89 16:09:36 GMT
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In article <587@lakesys.UUCP> davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) writes:
>Hi,
>This may be a silly question, but, I've got a few MS/PC-DOS applications that
>I would like to run under SCO Xenix.  Is this possible?  If so, how?

A more appropriate venue for the question would be comp.unix.xenix.

If you have 8086 or 80286 SCO Xenix, you can partition your hard disk
and run either Xenix or MSDOS, but not both at the same time. You can
access MSDOS files under Xenix (fast for reads, terribly slow for
writes), but not vice versa.

If you have 80386 SCO Xenix, for extra money you can get a bridge
program that allows MSDOS to run as a task under Xenix. If you read
comp.unix.xenix, you will see frequent postings on the problems of
making this work. It does appear to be getting better, but is still not
for the casual user.

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
916-752-1636 (voice, fax [2300-0800 PDT])
916-752-0776 secretary

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