From: jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Subject: Re: 386 Box + Unix Date: 29 Sep 1992 04:24:38 GMT
In article <WCS.92Sep27232803@rainier.ATT.COM> wcs@rainier.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart) writes:
>In article <1992Sep27.214442.15444@terminator.cc.umich.edu> pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
> You mean 386BSD, not BSD/386 (that is commercial). [...]
> Yes, you can have OS/2 and DOS partitions too. OS/2 Boot manager
> can be helpful, but 386bsd has a facility to shut down to DOS as well.
>
>Has anybody done a DOS-on-top-of-UNIX for 386BSD or one of the other
>free UNIX Operating System derivatives or workalikes? Does BSDI have it?
>It would be nice to be able to run the occasional DOS application
>while a real operating system goes on in the background, rather than
Umm. don't think so, for 386BSD but for Linux, yes.
There is a partial DOS emulator... The newest version
is on sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming/dos.tar.Z.
Linux like 386BSD is a free UNIX-like operating system.
unlike, 386BSD was written from the ground up for the
the Intel 386/486 architecture.
it supports (in various levels of completeness, some of this
is still at a Beta stage) virtual memory, shared libraries, X-windows,
tcp/ip, floating point emulation, and mountable DOS partitions)
It is not *too* difficult to get going. expecially if you
use the SLS distribution that is available on sunsite in /pub/Linux/SLS
or on tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/packages/SLS.
for more info, finger torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi (the author
of the kernel) and read comp.os.linux.
check it out.
followups to comp.os.linux.
jem.
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