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Arthur Marsh wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reference, but from what I read at www.trelos.com, win4lin
> isn't as mature in native hardware access as SCO Merge. On the other hand,
> win4lin supports Win98.
> 
> A Win4Lin with support for serial ports at high speed would get me onto
> Linux quickly. A Merge for UW 7.1.X with Win98SE support would get me
> running UW as soon as I could afford a copy of UW 7 small business edition.
> 
> The whole point of wanting to do this is to support legacy DOS applications
> while getting equivalent UW/Linux applications up and running on the same
> computer.

If it's really about DOS apps and not necessarily windows apps, then You
probably don't need anything but Linux and dosemu. Dosemu has been running
almost everything that runs on dos for a long time now. About the only
limitations now are "ring-0" code (Win9x, Phar-lap dos extender used by
AutoCAD < 13 ), and certain dos video modes while in X (all video modes are
ok on the console since you can give dos direct acess to any hardware). You
need a copy of some real dos, it comes with freedos, but that is far from
useable, but if ms-dos is not available, dr-dos can be downloaded and that
is not only up to snuff, but better than ms-dos. but if you have win95/98,
you have a perfectly suitable dos available, as you can actually use the dos
components from them.

Frankly, I'd rather run something like AutoCAD (versions > 13 ) which now
only comes in win9x versions, under a windows emulator on unix than on
native windows, if there is one that is complete enough. I'd like for the
application to enjoy the much more dependable garuntees made by the unix
kernel and likely the emulator package as well, than the MS "kernel"

(any unix, including linux)

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