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Re: Support of Other Operating Systems

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From: Sean Fagan
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 01:10
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In article <9008141843.AA07303@wubios.wustl.edu> david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) writes:
>In Reply to this Note From: <Eirik Fuller>
>>    It certainly seems important to have a Dos emulator on 386 systems.
>>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.

*All* of the use for DOS emulators running under unix that I've seen were
for games.  Face it, most DOS games have a better feel to them than Unix
games do (for example, there's one game, based on Tetris, that's three
dimensional.  Looks fun [I've never played it]).

The things engineers do to test their products... 8-)

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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Support of Other Operating Systems
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.211000.11229@sco.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 90 01:10:00 GMT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 02:10:00 1990