From: jpo@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz) Subject: Re: DOS/MS Windows compatibility for Free Software Date: 9 Jun 1992 11:31:02 GMT
v206gb6c@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PauL M SchwartZ) writes:
>In article <3295@key.COM>, rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes...
>>What is being done/thought about to allow software developed originally
>>for DOS and MS Windows to be used with free OS's.
>>
>>I have heard about a program that would allow MS DOS to to be run under
>>Linux under 8086 emulation mode.
>>
>>1) A kernel hack that would allow MS Windows 3.0 or 3.1 to run under the
>> DOS emulation mode under Linux. My understanding is that this would
>> essentially involve writing a set of DOS Protected Memory Interface
>> routines.
> This isn't gonna happen. There is no way to access DPMI from the virtual
>8086 mode. The emulation mode thinks it is a 8086 box all by its lonesome.
>MS Windows 3.0 runs OK under this in real (*yuck*) mode and 3.1 dropped this
>mode all together. Don't expect it to come back for Win 4.0. As of yet the
>Linux project is working on stabilizing the OS itself (and writing a new
>file system (I hope)). THis is far more important than getting MS-DOS to run
>under the system. The ability to run DOS programs will have a limited effect
>on most users. They haven't gone to some of the relatively well supported
>commercial *ix's that have DOS compatibility because they don't want to go to
>*ix. Additionally, as it has been sited here many times before (the gnu group)
>many commercial users want support rather than a superior system. That is a
>major road block to the acceptance of a Linux type system in a commercial
>setting. I've started to ramble, ergo, I'm outta here.
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I think it's it is possible to add DPMI. OS/2 2.0 provides
DPMI service to it's V86 boxes.