Does WINDOWS run under VP/ix?

[leo at aai.com]

rbraun at spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:

>graham at convex.com (Marv Graham) writes:
>>I am new to this group and don't know where the FAQ file is.  This surely
>>must be a frequently asked question.  What results are people having?

>Hmm--there ought to be a central repository of FAQ's for netnews.  Maybe
>someone'll come up with such a thing sometime soon.  (Ideally it could
>be accessed directly as a single keypress within netnews, like the Plato
>'notes' system developed at U. Illinois a decade and a half ago.)

This very proposal is being "debated" right now in news.groups.

>Anyway, as to whether Windows works under VP/ix:  yes.  Under SCO Unix,
>you'll have to install a patch so it doesn't get some sort of illegal-
>instruction error.  It's called Support Level Supplement number 268, and
>you can get it from SCO or from the SCO archive directory on uunet.
>Under ISC, it probably works without the need for such a patch.

An update, available from ISC, is necessary to run Windows 3.0 under VPIX
on ISC 2.2.
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