Windows 3.0 under vpix?

[John M. Haugen]

In article <202 at abhg.UUCP>, misko at abhg.UUCP (William Miskovetz) writes:
> Has anyone installed Windows 3.0 under vpix?  I attempted it, but
> I get a "General protection violation, cannot emulate instruction"
> when the Windows Setup program gets to the second floppy.  You
> use to be able to run Windows under vpix.  Is this no longer true?

Same problem here.  I called ISC and was informed they are aware of the problem.
The problem is Microsoft's setup program determines that it is running on a
"286" class machine and attempts to use some of the 286 instruction set.  The
virtual mode of the 386 does not support those instructions and hence the error.

Loading it onto a DOS partition from DOS and then running it under vpix in
real mode may work.  Unfortunately, I don't have a dos partition anymore.

I suspect this problem will occur for both SCO and ISC since they are both using
the same program for the DOS emulation.

My understanding is Microsoft is not in a big hurry to correct this "problem"
in that they don't have the problem with their DOS emulation package running
on their version of Xenix.

I sure hope enough customer pressure comes to bare since the write program 
that is included is a very nice document generater with its very simple to use
commands and ability to output Postscript.  If there were only a X based
package for about the same price!

> Bill Miskovetz.
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