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- From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu (Hari Seldon)
- Subject: Re: PCsim and MS Windows
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- References: <1992Jul25.183546.92185@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:25:40 GMT
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- In <1992Jul25.183546.92185@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
-
- >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 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
- ms windog also creates a swapfile (not sure of the mode you need to be in) if
- it crashes it does NOT do recovery, the file will remain. (this is the unix
- killer??) we are trying out desqview and then running ms win as an X
- application, info to follow
- >on my filesystem.
-
- >>The AIX PC simulator simulates a 286 running in real mode. The best
- hmmmm i though that was standard mode???
- >>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 :-)
- >>
- >>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
- again i wonder if this is from swapfiles????
- >of the Cdrive you create. See the man pages for instructions.
- bill pociengel
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