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From: DLJARVIS%SUVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (David L Jarvis)
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Date: 11 Jan 90 16:20:10 GMT
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Regarding VP/ix and Merge:

I currently have SCO's Xenix/386 and VP/ix on an 80386/20 ...
all the things that were in the recent posting about Merge
also apply to VP/ix ... I tend to suspect they are possibly
a bit more than similiar :-)   I've run multiple (as many as
4) Dos sessions concurrently with as many as 8 normal Xenix
application sessions ... no prob and not much degradation ...
I particulary like the combining of Xenix/Dos that happens ...
it's nice to have both :-)
The warning about the graphics card should be underlined and
blinking!  Be more than careful, leave no room for surprises!

Sadly enough tho, I get the distinct impression that BOTH
Xenix and VP/ix are being abandoned by SCO and many others.
(in favor of Unix and Merge etc..etc..)

Does anyone know if this "new" Unix from SCO will accomodate
a Dos partition on the same hard drive with the capability
of accessing the file system from within Unix &| Merge-VP/ix ????
(yes I know about having both reside on the same hd, and I
do have that, but I'd like to be able to have VP/ix or whatever
access my Dos partition directly, is this possible?)




___david___