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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <mkl.803574464@duesentrieb>,
Mario Klebsch DG1AM <mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote:
>Did you ever use a computer, that was not IBM compatible, but ran DOS?

Several. All were superior machines.

None of this explains why NT, which doesn't even LET you get at the hardware,
needs so much. A DOS compatibility box is cheap. There's even a free one out
there that includes an 8088 emulator. It's not complete, but that's a matter
of time spent polishing it.

I've got a commercial DOS emulator on my Amiga. It runs in an Amiga 1200 with
2M of RAM, giving me a full 640K DOS environment and plenty of RAM to spare.

If PC-Task can do it in 2M without even a hardware 8088 emulator, why does
my NT CDROM say "32M required"?
-- 

If the best part of waking up is Folgers in the cup...

				... nothing worse can happen to you all day!

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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/19
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