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- From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: PCsim and MS Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.183546.92185@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 18:35:46 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 52
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- In article <1992Jul21.154350.26213@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com writes:
- >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.
- >
- I don't know about MS_Windows 3.1 either, but for a while I played with
- MS-Windows under PCsim in AIX 3.1. It was awful. Very slow, and such an
- itty-bitty window. I ran it off a Cdrive virtual hard disk file. That
- grew uncontrollably as I fiddled, to a 40 meg file. Not worth the space
- on my filesystem.
-
- >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 :-)
- >
- Is PCsim in AIX 3.2 still only a -286? It is awfully slow, and I only use
- it now from the floppy drive, but at least the vga window can be enlarged.
-
- >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.
- >a
- I don't know what you mean here. Windows can be installed from any floppy on
- a MS_Dos system; what you call your floppy under PCsim is up to you. It'll
- work.
-
- >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.
-
- I'm not sure what you mean. PCSIM will let you create a file that can be
- used as a C-drive for PCsim. You can execute from there; but the file seems
- to become ever larger with use, keep it small enough by restricing the size
- of the Cdrive you create. See the man pages for instructions.
-
-
-
- --
- Sincerely,
-
- David L. Johnson ID: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
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