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- From: ajedgar@quantum.on.ca (Andrew Edgar)
- Subject: Re: DOS/MSWINDOWS under UNIX
- Message-ID: <dr#n_bb@quantum.on.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 13:57:50 GMT
- Organization: Quantum Software Systems
- References: <1992Aug19.202311.20622@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug19.202311.20622@uwm.edu> peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
- >I need to know what is the best way of running
- >MS-Windows 3.1 under UNIX. Do I buy Desqview and
- >run the windows applications remotely? Does
- >ISC's version of VPIX allow MS-Window applications
- >to be run? How about LOCUS computing's DOS MERGE?
- >
- >Please note that when running MS-WINDOWS I need
- >to be running in 386 enhanced mode. Therefore
- >DESQVIEW, VPIX, DOS MERGE must be able to
- >handle MS-WINDOWS in 386 enhanced mode.
- >
- >-Peter
- >
- Does it _have_ to be in enhanced mode or can it just be in protected mode?
-
- If protected mode will do you can run MS-Windows 2.1, 3.0
- and 3.1 in protected mode in QNX 4.1 with our "rundos"
- product. It's not really our main market but QNX does a
- pretty good job as a DOS/UNIX bridge.
-
- --aj
-