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Article #75303Re: Support of Other Operating Systems
From: Sean Fagan
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 01:10
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-) -- Sean Eric Fagan | "let's face it, finding yourself dead is one seanf@sco.COM | of life's more difficult moments." uunet!sco!seanf | -- Mark Leeper, reviewing _Ghost_ (408) 458-1422 | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,7a1d2642ca8170f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-17 17:34:49 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!becker!ncrcan!scocan!seanf 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 References: <9008141729.AA20063@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU> <9008141843.AA07303@wubios.wustl.edu> Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) Distribution: gnu Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 20 Posted: Fri Aug 17 02:10:00 1990