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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James R. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Ventura Publisher under uport dosmerge
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Date: 12 Feb 90 21:20:46 GMT
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In article <131672@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William
A. Turnbow) writes:
> 
> 	For some obscure reason, Ventura does not run in dosmerge.  Its
> been a while, but I seem to remember it just hung the dos window, with
> the window remaining blank.  The process had to be killed from another
> terminal.  I am running with an EGA monitor.
> 
> 	Anyone know any reasons for this?  Ventura runs fine under native
> DOS.
> 
> 	Also, does anyone know of other 386 unix flavors that have dos
> compatibility software that Ventura will run with?
> 
> 	Thanks.
> 

If I remember correctly, VP/ix runs Ventura pretty well.  I do think
that standard VGA 640x480
is about the most you can get though, since the drivers typically can't
access extended
modes and custom cards under VP/ix.  For example, The GPX 1024x800 from
Renaissance will
not  "install" it's drivers under DOS since the drivers don't have
hardware access to the card.  They 
think it's not a GPX.   At any rate, even with the GPX, you can get
programs to run 640x480.


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