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From: raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?)
Message-ID: <C7IxBp.FGH@sleeper.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 09:07:00 GMT
References: <1tgme7$n0q@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993May21.135304.21185@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
>When we had the ref mailing lists I remember someone was looking at
>porting the mach DOS emulator which apparently COULD run windows. Maybe
>this person could comment. Of course perhaps I read it wrong, it was a
>while ago.
I suspect that this would only be posible with Windows 3.0 real mode.
Standard and Enhanced modes need too much control over system resources
to viably co-exist with another OS (apart from DOS as a special case
which Windows knows how to fool to run partially under its control.)
I do recall reading somewhere about a PC emulator that did exactly this,
it may have been part of BSD/386.
--
Bye for now.
- Raz. (Roland Turner)
raz@sleeper.apana.org.au VK2ZRT Raz@3:712/413.1 (OH) 61 2 319 5700