[geeks] Mac Book & a DOS box

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sat Jan 13 17:01:53 CST 2007


On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> However I have one app, Medley Lisp, that uses an oddball dos
> extender. Does Parallels allow one to run a dos session the way that
> it does windows? Or would one of the other emulators be a better
> choice?

Parallels emulates (or, if the hardware supports it, virtualizes) a
complete PC, so you can run whatever OS on it you want.  I'm running
DOS, XP, OS/2, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Netware inside of
Parallels with varying degrees of success.

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Elgin, TX         (   childhood.  Others grow up to be CEOs and
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