Re: Support of Other Operating Systems

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 1990 18:43

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In Reply to this Note From: <Eirik Fuller>
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>    It certainly seems important to have a Dos emulator on 386 systems.
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>Only to someone who wants to run proprietary software.

That is a good point.  Ideally, the GNU project would provide
replacements for all of the major applications so that this would not be
necessary.

The reality that there are a lot of free and non-free programs that only
run in a Dos environment.  I agree it makes more sense for us to focus
on providing replacements that to reverse engineer the environment in
which they run.   Still, there will be a demand for this capability.  -David-

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