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- From: tir@vipunen.hut.fi (Timo Riikonen)
- Subject: Re: ISC VP/ix Question(s)
- In-Reply-To: alan@ernest.dseg.ti.com's message of Thu, 16 Jul 1992 00:32:46 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Jul13.195308.21397@access.digex.com> <BrGHIn.IMn@ernest.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 11:08:55
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- >>>>> On Thu, 16 Jul 1992 00:32:46 GMT, alan@ernest.dseg.ti.com (Alan Edmonds) said:
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- Alan> In article <1992Jul13.195308.21397@access.digex.com> jcraig@access.digex.com (Joseph N. Craig) writes:
- >We have been somewhat disappointed to discover that VP/ix that comes with
- >ISC Unix emulates 286 class machines. We have some software that requires
- >386 machines.
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- Alan> I believe most DOS-under-Unix products (Merge,VP/ix,etc.) all are
- Alan> 80286 style emulators. I think they work by using the virtual-8086 mode
- Alan> of the 386, where you create a virtual 8086 processor. If this is true,
- Alan> you won't find any DOS-under-Unix 386 style SW. In fact, if you do allow
- Alan> access to real/protected mode under DOS app, it could (would) easily
- Alan> crash Unix. What in particular does your SW require about 386 machines?
- Alan> I believe you can get some high-memory drivers to work under VP/ix.
-
- I don't know about Joseph, but we would need the high memory as it is
- done in himem.sys. Without it you can't run Windows 3.1, Excel 3.x,
- Excel 4.x, Word 4.x and so on. Although there is some high memory
- available for VP/ix also, what's the use when the programs don't know
- how to use it?
-
- --
- Timo Timo.Riikonen@hut.fi
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