johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (10/07/89)
In article <7971@microsoft.UUCP> philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil Barrett) writes: >>DOS emulators on said System-V/386 box have been very good to me. > >do they support mice well? windows apps? graphical apps? TSRs? `dirty' >apps, dos extended apps? cut and paste between apps? 386 unices have their problems, but poor DOS support is not one of them. I run MS Word with a serial mouse using the standard MS mouse driver, with the screen in graphics mode and the document buffered in expanded memory and it just plain works. I was amazed. TSRs and all that nonsense work too, it gives you a complete 8086 including the BIOS, I/O device registers, and all that crud. Multiple simultaneous vpix sessions on different virtual screens work, too, albeit slowly since DOS is almost always compute-bound. If you want windows, either run MS Windows under vpix or else run some vpix sessions under X. (I admit, graphical vpix windows under X leave a lot to be desired, but they're young, yet.) Cut and paste don't work because they don't work under DOS, either, except for Windows apps that know about it. But, given all that, what does any of this have to do with the productivity of knowledge workers? I find my major problem to be that it takes too long to read the day's news. -- John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869 johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl, Levine@YALE.edu Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old. -The Globe