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- From: peterson@CS.ColoState.EDU (james peterson)
- Subject: Re: msdos emulator for decstaton 3100
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:44:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.153618.16669@e2big.mko.dec.com> vsp@peewee.enet.dec.com (Vipul Patel) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- > DEC sells and supports an MS-DOS emulator
- > that would work on top of its Ultrix and
- > VMS operating systems. DEC SoftPC emulates
- > a 286 PC. It would allow you to run Lotus 1-2-3,
- > WordPerfect, Harvard Graphics, Quattro Pro,
- > MS Word and Windows etc.
- >
-
- We tried this product a while back. 2 problems: 1) it will only
- run on the console; 2) it is SOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOWWWW you will faint.
- Typically, anyone can out type the screen character echo, even hunters-
- and-peckers........ I would instead start looking for Unix software
- that do the same things (slowly but surely, it is happening), but
- don't expect any of it to come from Microsoft (which, I predict, will
- hurt them badly in the long run).
- --
- james lee peterson peterson@CS.ColoState.edu
- dept. of computer science
- colorado state university "Some ignorance is invincible."
- ft. collins, colorado (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-6639)
-