Regular Merge allows two users to run an unlimited number of DOS sessions (within resource limitations), however, Server Merge allows more than 2 users to use Merge at the same time.
Approximately 96% of MS Windows runs in an 8086 environment! And the orther 4% with 80286 instructions. So this really significant OS runs on an old XT! So we can run MS Windows and UnixWare on the same processor.
As far as memory is concerned, we talk about 2 different type of memory - Windows type memory (standard) and DOS type memory (expanded) which conforms to the LIM 4.0 standard.
Novell DOS 7 is not included with Merge because some of the features do not work or do not need in an 8086 environment (for example, multi-tasking - UnixWare supplies that for you!). Also, you cannot get Novell DOS 7 in Japan and we clearly need to ship the same DOS version to all countries.
Note that we intend to stick with DR-DOS 6 as it meets the requirements of Merge.
With UnixWare 2.0, Merge support the 386 instruction set under Windows. This gave us support for another 15 or so applications which only needed standard mode 386 support (as opposed to enhanced mode). This "386" mode support is the first step towards supporting enhanced mode applications under Windows.
Merge will work from both a graphical X terminal, and serial terminals. So you can run Windows in an Xwindow on your desktop. Only DOS is supported on serial terminals (dumb terminal, telnet sessions etc). Both vt and scancode terminals are supported.
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