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From: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dell and Dell 386SX feedback sought
Message-ID: <1014@upaya.lilink.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 90 21:03:00 GMT
References: <670004@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> <2146@sunquest.UUCP> <511251@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services
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Quoth larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) in <511251@nstar.UUCP>:
|In article <2146@sunquest.UUCP>, whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes:
|> stevek@hpfcmgw.UUCP writes:
|> 
|> The second bad experience I had involved vp/ix.  Before buying the system, I
|> asked the sales rep how good vp/ix was.  Her initial response was basically 
|> "it runs every DOS program with no problems".  I was astounded by this and I
|> asked her to check further and verify this.  She checked further and replied
| 
|We have VP/ix here at nstar - and use it daily to run a DOS based BBS
|under Interactive Unix (2.02) without problems.  As a matter of fact,
|the 386/ix release of VP/ix has run every DOS application that I have
|tried.

Clearly, you haven't been using Word Perfect 5.{0,1}.

Beware of any program that insists upon writing temporary files
to the C: drive.  Other than that, any DOS program should work
just fine.

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