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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!fredw
- From: fredw@ibmpcug.co.uk (F K Weil)
- Subject: Re: msdos emulator for decstaton 3100
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Distribution: connect
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 09:48:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzwwL0.KHu@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <1h89gcINNina@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Dec23.153618.16669@e2big.mko.dec.com> <Dec26.184431.43920@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Sender: fredw@ibmpcug.co.uk (F K Weil)
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- In article <Dec26.184431.43920@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> peterson@CS.ColoState.EDU (james peterson) writes:
- >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
- >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.
- >.....I would instead start looking for Unix software
- >that do the same things (slowly but surely, it is happening), but
- I would agree, DOS under UNIX is slow, it can turn an INTEL 386 box able to
- support 10 UNIX users into a single user slow 286 equivalent.
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- Both Louts and WordPerfect are going into UNIX in a big way .
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- Other products such as CA 20/20 area also arround.
-
- Best of luck with your searches.
-
- --
- Fred Weil
- Unix Rules OK
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