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- From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
- Subject: Re: DOS emulation
- Message-ID: <C0BHKA.MKM@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <memo.837633@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:48:09 GMT
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- In article <memo.837633@cix.compulink.co.uk> jburtona@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >DOS emulation
- >Rather than running a copy of MSDOS in an virual 8086, wouldn't it be
- >nice to have a free dos-like operating system that was capable of
- >running DOS programs?
-
- Part-II: Why not think of the problem this way instead?
-
- Which programs from the DOS world are needed so that people will give-up
- MS-DOS? I can think of these:
-
- - Lotus 123. Who wants to write and anonymously post a Lotus
- compatible UNIX spreadsheet? Or at least one that could be
- configured to be compatible (thus you only have to anoymously post
- the Lotus compatibility settings). :-) :-)
-
- - Wordperfect, or any WYSIWYG wordprocess for that matter.
- Actually I'm thinking of doing this when I get around to making
- the X-windows version of JOE.
-
- - Dbase. Yuck. Actually does anyone have postgres working for
- Linux? Is postgres in a complete enough form? Is SQL really
- needed? How hard would it be to make a Dbase to postgres
- compiler?
-
- - Desktop publishing. I suspect that between interviews, X,
- ghostscript, and groff, this is going to happen.
-
- If some form of the above four exist, and some better packaging and
- advertising is done for linux, we could stamp out the evil scourge MS-DOS
- and really complete the free-software revolution comrades! ...Well it's a
- neat thought anyway. There's lots of other specialized programs for many
- types of businesses. I think the relatively small companies which make
- these would be only too happy to get their programs to work on a free and
- easily programmed OS which is almost as powerful as SUN-OS. The only reason
- they use MS-DOS is because it's there. If Linux is going to be popular at
- all, the above four things really need to exist.
- --
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