XENIX AND DOS

Eric Berggren berggren at eecs.cs.pdx.edu
Tue Nov 20 18:51:24 AEST 1990


evanc at isishq.fidonet.org (Evan Champion) writes:

>I was planning on buying Xenix for my next computer but I am unsure about 
>it's compatibility with my existing DOS programs. Can it run DOS 
>applications? Thanks.

  No, DOS and XENIX are completely different altogether. It has a couple
of utilities for access the DOS fs, but that is as close as it gets.

  I wonder what it would take to onstruct an emulator? hmmmm.......

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