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Article #73199The Hurd and dos
From: Terje Eggestad
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 17:00
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 17:00
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Have anyone considered to make a msdos shell that runs under the hurd,
something ala the Sun i386 dos command. Or even the possibility to have
unix and dos partitions on the hard disk.
Personally I would prefer some thing that run side by side, perferablely
under X11. Some of us would like to run Unix on our home PC standalone
with out any network. I pretty much had it with the limitations of dos
and that way dos is patched to bypass those limitations,
but I still have a lot of programs (binaries) that I wouldn't be without.
Have anyone ever considered a binary translator between dos and Unix on
{3/4}86's. As long the dos executables doesn't bypass dos's interrupts and
use bios directly, this shouldn't be too unfeasable.
Any constructive or semi constructive input welcomed.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,cb7a7b90ae4e52ce,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-31 10:08:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun!t0e0078 From: t0e0078@tamsun.TAMU.EDU (Terje Eggestad) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: The Hurd and dos Keywords: dos, the Hurd Message-ID: <5472@tamsun.TAMU.EDU> Date: 31 Oct 91 17:00:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Lines: 25