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- From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: PCsim and MS Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.154350.26213@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:43:50 GMT
- References: <Jul13.222505.56015@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
- Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division
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- In article <Jul13.222505.56015@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, wsnell@ops.agsci.colostate.edu (Warren Snelling) writes:
- |> I've been unable to install Microsoft Windows (3.0 or 3.1) on
- |> an RS/6000 220W running the PC simulator. The 220W
- What little I know about Windows 3.1 is what I read in the trade rags.
- But what I recall, Windows 3.1 no longer supports running in real
- mode, which I think means you can no longer run it on a 283 system.
- Microsoft has limited it to run only on 386 systems.
-
- The AIX PC simulator simulates a 286 running in real mode. The best
- you will be able to do is run Windows 3.0. This is known to work, but
- again, its only what I read in the papers. And I always believe what
- I read in the papers -- and USENET :-)
-
- I'd also be quite surprised that Windows doesnt insist on installing
- itself from the A: drive. Id suggest first finding a system with a
- floppy and installing this way to prove that floppy installation works.
- Then add the new complication of installing from floppy images.
-
- Also be aware that one cannot execute DOS programs (exe files) from DOS
- drives simulated via AIX directories. Programs must reside in a
- DOS drive file image. You can copy them there from dos or from AIX using
- doswrite.
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