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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!blkbox!mknewman
- From: mknewman@blkbox (Marc Kraker Newman)
- Subject: Re: Problem running DOS Merge under X11 windows
- Organization: The Black Box, PO Box 591822 Houston, TX 77259-1822
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 23:31:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov04.233121.14754@blkbox>
- References: <1992Nov01.073037.0605446@locus.com> <24953@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Nov02.224943.0608529@locus.com>
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- peet@locus.com (J. David Peet) writes:
-
- >In article <24953@optima.cs.arizona.edu> dsiegel@optima.UUCP (Dave Siegel) writes:
- >>From article <1992Nov01.073037.0605446@locus.com>, by peet@locus.com (J. David Peet):
- >>> The next generation DOS Merge (soon to be available) simulates
- >>> 286 protected mode (called "standard mode" for Windows) in such
- >>> a way as to allow Windows 3.1 to run in standard mode. An XMS
- >>> driver is used to allow access up to 16 megabytes to Windows.
- >>
- >>
- >>cool. this is exactly what i want. can you give us a release date on that?
- >>
- >>Also, for Dell users, and any other Unix that comes prepackaged with DOSMerge,
- >>is there going to be an "upgrade" price available? I certainly don't want to
- >>wait till the next Issue of Dell Unix, and I don't think I wanna pay full
- >>price...
-
- >I did not give enough info in that last post. This new DOS Merge required
- >several changes to the base UNIX kernel in order to run Windows 3.1.
- >These changes have NOT been done (yet) to SVR4.0. They have been done to
- >SCO Unix and to SVR4.2 (Destiny). So, regardless, a kernel upgrade is
- >needed. Nothing except economic reasons prevent the kernel changes being
- >made to SVR4.0. I don't speak for Locus, (or Dell) in this, but it seems
- >that by the time the kernel changes could be made, and put into an update
- >for SVR4.0 (and tested, manufactured and distributed), most customers
- >would rather get an upgrade to SVR4.2, which I expect the various resellers
- >are getting ready real soon now. Dell and other UNIX resellers are
- >customer driven. If enough ask for the new Merge on old SVR4.0 and don't
- >want to upgrade to SVR4.2, then they will make the needed kernel changes
- >available as an upgrade. Personally I don't see this happening. SVR4.2
- >is so much better than SVR4.0 that I don't expect SVR4.0 to be around
- >for very long once SVR4.2 starts shipping. Make your want's known to
- >Dell (or other current or future DOS Merge resellers). They keed to know
- >what customers want.
-
-
- So when will ya'll get 386 protected mode working, so we can run Windows in
- enchanced mode?
-
-
- --
- Marc K. Newman (N5SLG) Is UNIX pronounced
- mknewman@blkbox.com "UNIQUES" or
- PO BOX 591822 "EUNICHS"?
- Houston, Texas 77259-1822
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