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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Running Dos on Unix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.221329.10835@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <BxB99M.3r1@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:13:29 GMT
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- In <BxB99M.3r1@eis.calstate.edu> jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon) writes:
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- >I have a 386/40mhz with 4 megs ram. I am sick of DOS, and now prefer a
- >UNIX OS. Now, is there one that is prefered from one to the other. I
- >like BSD. Sys V is sort of icky. Also, is there a program that will
- >allow me to run MSDOS programs on my UNIX os? I know of Desqview/X, but
- >was wonder if that was primarily for UNIX or DOS..?
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- I'm told that Linux will run in 4 MB, as will Coherent. I don't know
- if either of them has DOS under UNIX capability (I don't think so).
- Commercial UNIX is usually required for that, and you really don't
- have enough memory to run that well.
-
- DV/X is DOS software to make the DOS machine into an X client (run X
- applications, which you can then use from an X terminal or a UNIX
- machine running X).
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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