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The Hurd and dos

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From: Terje Eggestad
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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From: t0e0078@tamsun.TAMU.EDU (Terje Eggestad)
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Subject: The Hurd and dos
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