mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (02/08/89)
>In general, Windows/386 will let you do anything in a window (regarding DOS) >that you wish. The only program that we have been able to find that cannot >run in a window is SoftermPC, a communication package which seems to tie into >almost every interrupt on the machine. Just for fun, I tried to run a video >game in a window -- worked fine... much to my suprise! If you get a public domain "de-copy-protect" program for it, early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator for the ega (NOT VGA) will run on a PS-2 model 80 under windows 386(*), but not otherwise. This is truly amazing. * in a window only
meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu (02/10/89)
Here's another program which seems to be totally incompatible with Windows/386, IBM's PC LAN Program. Not only won't it run in a DOS window, but when PC LAN is running, I can't get Windows/386 to start. (Something 'bout being unable to initialize some address table, I assume for protected mode.) If someone has, by some stroke of luck, gotten the two to work together, PLEASE tell me how you did it. I'm running an IBM PS/2 80 as a network disk server, and wasting 3 of the 4 megs of RAM in the process.