Does WINDOWS run under VP/ix?

J. David Peet peet at locus.com
Tue May 21 13:00:56 AEST 1991


In article <24867 at well.sf.ca.us> nlane at well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
>
>It would be quite a sight to see a 386 running multiple 386 virtual
>processors! :)  The idea of using a 386 in a unix box has been done
>by several vendors:  Everex in thier Step 88000 workstations uses
>a 286/386sx/386 CPU for i/o processing and running DOS.
>I did read an interesting tid-bit in Undocumented DOS - it would
>be possible for someone to implement DPMI (Dos Protected Mode
>Interface) in Unix (using Unix as the DPMI server).  That would
>enable at least Standard mode Windows to run Under Unix (as the
>DPMI client).  Any takers...:)?
>
>-Nathan Lane
>Digital Technology Service, Santa Barbara, CA
>(805) 683-3760        Authorized Esix Resellers

Locus Computing Corporation is one of the twelve founding members
of the DPMI committee.  We plan on implementing DPMI in a future
release of DOS Merge.  We have not announced any timeframe for this.
When DPMI is implemented as a part of Merge, it will allow DOS
programs that are written to the "1.0" spec to fully use all the
386 protected mode features, while running as a process under UNIX!

-David Peet
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