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Subject: NetBSD and DOS support
Date: 21 Sep 1993 14:05:36 -0500
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In consideration of going with NetBSD, I need to know a couple of things:

I very much require that the OS I go with will support DOS... I understand
that work is well-underway with this and NetBSD.  However, what is the
status?  Will there be any support for MS-Windows?

And finally, support for SCO UNIX binaries.  I understand that someone
has this working but cannot release the source-code for various reasons.
Who has this working?  Is there anyone else who is hacking at this?  What
would the limitations be with such a mechanism: ie, running and using
certain binaries...perhaps you would not be able to use a binary that
was compiled with shared libs.  But could you use some of the other standard
binaries?

Thank you.