[rescue] Interactive Unix?

Greg A. Woods rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Dec 10 17:46:47 CST 2001


[ On Monday, December 10, 2001 at 14:12:59 (-0800), Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Interactive Unix?
>
> You could actually run MS-DOS natively on a window in the 386i machines.
> We used to have one of this beasts and it was weird to run DOS apps under
> SunView windows. In fact I think you could have several instances of DOS
> running, and I think that was one of the marketing strategies for the
> machine. (this was before windows could do several DOS prompts.... Late
> 80s ISTR.

Was that with VP/ix, or the other more cruddy thing?

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