Running Dos on Unix

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3 total messages Started by John Herndon Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:08

#321

Author: John Herndon
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:08

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I have a 386/40mhz with 4 megs ram.  I am sick of DOS, and now prefer a
UNIX OS.  Now, is there one that is prefered from one to the other.  I
like BSD.  Sys V is sort of icky.  Also, is there a program that will
allow me to run MSDOS programs on my UNIX os?  I know of Desqview/X, but
was wonder if that was primarily for UNIX or DOS..?

Re: Running Dos on Unix

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Author: Brett Elliott
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 06:03

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jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon) writes:
> I have a 386/40mhz with 4 megs ram.  I am sick of DOS, and now prefer a
> UNIX OS.  Now, is there one that is prefered from one to the other.  I
> like BSD.  Sys V is sort of icky.  Also, is there a program that will
> allow me to run MSDOS programs on my UNIX os?  I know of Desqview/X, but
> was wonder if that was primarily for UNIX or DOS..?
>

Re: Running Dos on Unix

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Author: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:13

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In <BxB99M.3r1@eis.calstate.edu> jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon) writes:

>I have a 386/40mhz with 4 megs ram.  I am sick of DOS, and now prefer a
>UNIX OS.  Now, is there one that is prefered from one to the other.  I
>like BSD.  Sys V is sort of icky.  Also, is there a program that will
>allow me to run MSDOS programs on my UNIX os?  I know of Desqview/X, but
>was wonder if that was primarily for UNIX or DOS..?

I'm told that Linux will run in 4 MB, as will Coherent.  I don't know
if either of them has DOS under UNIX capability (I don't think so).
Commercial UNIX is usually required for that, and you really don't
have enough memory to run that well.

DV/X is DOS software to make the DOS machine into an X client (run X
applications, which you can then use from an X terminal or a UNIX
machine running X).

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