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In article <1990Aug16.211000.11229@sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>*All* of the use for DOS emulators running under unix that I've seen were
>for games.  

Then you haven't looked real hard.  And someone from SCO (the gods of
"lets let them run their crudy DOS programmes under Unix") should know
better....

The vast majority of DOS things my users want to do are run their
favorite editor (usually WordPerfect), run Lotus 123, or run some
proprietary accounting package.  This is from a sample of 30-40 users.
These are not the technically savy, highly computer literate people
that make up, oh, about 5% of my users...these are the 95% of my users
destined to do nothing but support the wonder-boys.

The reason to want a DOS emulation mode is not to run lots of really
bitchin' games (get real), but because of the the lamentable fact
that there are about 10 times as many DOS programmes as Unix ones,
and while most non-Unix-oids know WP 5.0, Lotus 123, Harvard Graphics,
etc., very few of them have the priviledge of knowing emacs, hacking
csh scripts, or whipping up a quick 20 page proposal in troff.

>
>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]).
>

I wouldn't know...I don't use DOS machines (for games or anything
else).

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