Merge supplied with UW2.0 has enhanced internationalisation support - French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanees (as well as English!) "all done for you".
Merge is created by a company in Los Angeles call "Locus" - they have years of experience in this field. Novell works with locus to add features, functionality and quality. Novell recently provided SPX/IPX support for Locus.
Merge is a hardware/software combination with 95% of the time spent in a virtual 8086 environment running directly on the processor. The other 5% is "glue" time talking with and making use of the UnixWare environment to share devices, memory space etc.
Merge will run DOS & Windows. Yes, it is really running a binary copy of DOS and can run a binary copy of Windows - bug for bug compatable! you still get general protection faults under Windows! The good side is that Merge gives UnixWare users access to a very large range of high-quality applications.
In fact we go futher than just providing seperate DOS & UnixWare environments - you can run DOS commands from UnixWare and UNIX commands from DOS! So "dir" will work from the UnixWare $ prompt and "ls" will work from the DOS prompt. So you can use whatever interface you like.
An alternative method to Merge is "Wabi" - Novell has dabled with this but it is popular with Sun. However, Wabi doesn't give you access to these 1000's of applications - only a few, well tested applications because Wabi isn't really running MS Windows
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