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- From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: DOS emulation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.180603.60541@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:06:03 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- In article <C0BHKA.MKM@world.std.com>, jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
- >>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?
- >
- >Which programs from the DOS world are needed so that people will give-up
- >MS-DOS? I can think of these:
- >
- I'd like to add to the list: a full-featured computer-algebra package, like
- Maple or Mathematica. I don't think there is any chance that either of those
- will be ported to linux in the forseeable future, certainly not Mathematica.
- I now use gnuplot and Pari-GP as substitutes, but Maple certainly does much
- more than the sum of these two.
-
- --
- Sincerely,
-
- David L. Johnson ID: dlj0@lehigh.edu
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