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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: dosv under os2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.134202.4513@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:42:02 GMT
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- In article <17t6p8INN5od@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
- >the faq for os2 claims you can run multiple dos sessions under
- >os2 and they need not be the same version. is this for real? is
- >it robust?
-
- Yes, and yes. I run DOS 5.0 in virtual machines all the time.
-
- >i want to run dosv, the version of dos marketed by ibm for at and
- >ps2 bus machines that does on screen display of japanese kanji.
- >this version of dos does nothing more exotic than trap bios
- >calls, check if the two byte codes are kanji, and display
- >accordingly. it runs fine on generic us and european market
- >machines. nevertheless, i do not want to shell out for os2 and
- >learn its quirks if os2 will not runs dosv.
-
- It should run, but it may have to run in a full-screen session, if
- it's going to use vga graphics. Some hi-res video drivers (like my
- ATI driver) will not map a VGA screen into a window.
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