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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
- Subject: Re: Problem running DOS Merge under X11 windows
- Message-ID: <1318@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:03:21 GMT
- References: <24953@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Nov02.224943.0608529@locus.com> <1992Nov04.233121.14754@blkbox>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1992Nov04.233121.14754@blkbox> mknewman@blkbox (Marc Kraker Newman) writes:
-
- >So when will ya'll get 386 protected mode working, so we can run Windows in
- >enchanced mode?
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- Is there any important reason why this is better than Standard mode under
- UNIX? I would suppose that UNIX allows Standard mode to pretend that there's
- lots of memory using UNIX's VM, and I will bet dollars to donuts that the
- SysVR4 VM is far more efficient than Windows 386EM. Then there is the question
- of 'true multitasking'. Why not open more than one desktop for those things
- you want to run independently? So although emulating 386EM might provide some
- facilities that you don't get in Standard mode, they don't look like big ones
- to me. In fact, I would guess that with multiple users running Windows under
- UNIX on the same host, 386EM will be _far_ slower than Standard mode in almost
- all cases.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-