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Questions about the DG10 & Business BASIC

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From: phys169
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 1991 21:11
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While we're talking about not-exactly-aos questions, I was wonderring if
anybody could answer the following...

(1) DG/10's (remember, dual processor desktops) could run MSDOS as well as AOS
or DG/RDOS; but I never saw modern versions of MSDOS running on it. Anyone know
if you can get MSDOS 3+ (or even DR DOS 5) running on these animals?

(2) Also on the subject of DG10's, the screen memory is mapped to a strange
place (under MSDOS) in my version, and something nasty is where normal PC's put
the screen (seems to crash very easily when standard PC software unwittingly
tries to access it, e.g. Turbo Pascal's CRT unit). I asked DG ages ago, but no
joy. Anyone know of solutions? Yes, I know that DG10's are as old as the hills,
but they had one disadvantage which is now a heck of an advantage - 8086 i/o is
trapped by the microECLIPSE, which makes them potentially VERY useful for
testing new programs for viruses. DG - are you listening? brush the dust off
the old DG10 glossies, there's life in the old boy yet!

(3) Is Business BASIC still alive and kicking? Are there compilers for old BB
programs running on PC's, Unix, etc? 

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Perhaps this newsgroup should be renamed to something like comp.os.dg?
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Subject: Questions about the DG10 & Business BASIC
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