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Re: UNIX for 286

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From: Charles Hedrick
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 03:09
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>      Is there any version of UNIX for the '286 that has any kind of DOS 
>emulation on it.

Microport SV/AT supports Merge/286.  That does a quite reasonable job
of running DOS applications.  The main limit is that you can have only
one DOS application active at a time.  (Of course there are the usual
issues about reliability with Microport Unix, but it does basically
work.)
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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Re: UNIX for 286
Keywords: '286 machine
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Date: 11 Jun 91 03:09:41 GMT
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