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- From: peet@locus.com (J. David Peet)
- Subject: "Enhanced mode Windows 3.1"-under-unix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.030300.0616915@locus.com>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
- References: <24953@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Nov02.224943.0608529@locus.com> <1992Nov04.233121.14754@blkbox>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 03:03:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov04.233121.14754@blkbox> mknewman@blkbox (Marc Kraker Newman) 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.
- >>... (Requires SVR4.2 or a update to SCO's kernel)
- >...
- >So when will ya'll get 386 protected mode working, so we can run Windows in
- >enhanced mode?
-
- It has not been decided. Since you are asking for enhanced mode support,
- would Win32s support be good enough given the hypothesis that Merge support
- of standard mode is completely out of the question for your purposes?
- (Most likely Win32s support would be easier to support than enhanced mode.)
-
- What important applications do you have that don't work with standard mode?
- How important would enhanced mode (or Win32s) be to you (i.e. how much extra
- money would you pay to get this, if any, and/or would you just not buy the
- whole product if such support is not available either as standard equipment
- or an addon?). If providing enhanced mode support was nearly as easy as
- standard mode support, then we would have done that instead.
- Of course, we all want to "have it all", but we need to see how important
- this is balanced against other new good enhancements that we can spend our
- time and resources on.
-
- Thanks,
- -David Peet
-