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In article <17t6p8INN5od@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>the faq for os2 claims you can run multiple dos sessions under
>os2 and they need not be the same version.  is this for real? is
>it robust?

Yes, and yes.  I run DOS 5.0 in virtual machines all the time.

>i want to run dosv, the version of dos marketed by ibm for at and
>ps2 bus machines that does on screen display of japanese kanji.
>this version of dos does nothing more exotic than trap bios
>calls, check if the two byte codes are kanji, and display
>accordingly.  it runs fine on generic us and european market
>machines.  nevertheless, i do not want to shell out for os2 and
>learn its quirks if os2 will not runs dosv.  

It should run, but it may have to run in a full-screen session, if
it's going to use vga graphics.  Some hi-res video drivers (like my
ATI driver) will not map a VGA screen into a window.

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