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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.

Hmmn, perhaps that's because you spend more time playing games than the
rest of us do?  I use vp/ix, which is DOS in virtual 86 mode on a 386, to
run Javelin (a modeling package,) Lucid 3-D (a cute little spreadsheet,)
MS Word (my favorite DOS WP program,) PKZIP/PKUNZIP, ARCA/ARCE/ARCV, and a
bunch of utilities for a DSP card I'm fooling around with.  Some of them,
e.g. Word and ARC, have Unix versions, but I already have the DOS
versions, and the Unix versions invariably are more expensive and a couple
of revisions behind.

DOS is gross, there's no question about it, but there is so much DOS software,
free and otherwise, that coming up with a way to use it is a huge win.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!esegue!johnl
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