a question about DOS emulation in Win XP

[Monty J. Harder]

> This is not a linux question, but I think that some of you might know the
> answer.  A friend at work wants to get a new computer that will stand
alone,
> not attached to the intranet or anything, and bascially run one program.
> The program they want to run is a DOS program.  I know that Windows XP has
> an emulator.  Will this emulator run DOS programs?  If so, how much
> degredation of performance is there?  Thanks for the help.

  Why would you want to do this?  If it's a DOS program, you don't need the
overhead of XP.  If you have a legal copy of Win9x you can transfer to the
machine in question, you could do sys c: and it'll boot into Real Mode, aka
"DOS 7".  Failing that, you might be able to get Caldera OpenDOS (or
whatever it's called these days) or some other real DOS.

  But if you insist, the answer is "some of them".  The closer the program
gets to the bare iron, the greater the risk it won't work in XP (or any
other emulator, such as Wine, actually).