wiljo@ipkima.uucp (Wiljo Heinen) (08/08/90)
Hello, world ! I got kind of a silly question. We got this wonderful news Windows 3.0 here, right ? We got MS-DOS machines and this new product seems to run (almost) fine. But: We also got Interactive UNIX here. With NFS and all these bells. Wouldn't it be nice to have Windows and all (or some of) its applications running under UNIX. Hold on - now there is vpix. Also wonderful product that runs (almost) fine. Well / supports only 8086 emulation you say. Well - right - but is has capabilities to emulate LIM-EMS 4.0 - or so they say. OK now - let's see: Fire up vp/ix with ems, fine now what was this command to run Windows in "real mode" // aha.. "win /r" Shouldn't it work, with all they claim ??? But it doesn't. VP/ix emulation tells me: Unable to emulate instruction. Protection fault. Anyone any ideas whether and how I could get this newborn baby to run under VP/ix ???? Or why it is obvious that I can't ????? If you mail, use: wiljo@freesid.mamnix.quest.sub.org or wheinen@ipkama.ka.sub.org or wiljo%ipkima@mcshh.hanse.de tnx and so long Wiljo -- ================================================================================ If we knew where we are and whither we are tending, we'd know what to do and how to achieve it. Abe Lincoln
richardh@hpopd.HP.COM (Richard Hancock) (08/14/90)
Microsoft Systems Journal July 1990 states that "There's now one version of Windows; Windows/286 and Windows/386 have been merged so the same version works on all machines. (As in the past, Windows quietly supports 8088/8086 machines, but runs well only on the fastest of them.) Maybe "quiet" is a euphemism?
pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (08/17/90)
> Microsoft Systems Journal July 1990 states that "There's now one version of > Windows; Windows/286 and Windows/386 have been merged so the same version > works > on all machines. (As in the past, Windows quietly supports 8088/8086 machines, > but runs well only on the fastest of them.) > Let's get this cleared up. My father happened to have an old Turbo XT (10 MHz) with 20 MB hard disk and CGA. Just for kick, I installed and tested Windows 3.0 on that machine. And as far as I can tell, Windows 3.0 DOES WORK in the old XT with an almost decent performance ! Of course I didn't expect it to do what a 386 machine can do. But I can run the accessories (never tested any real program, not enough disk space to install any :-)). Fire up a full screen DOS window. I can only use a 320 x 200 bitmap as the wall paper. I even managed to play Solitaire reasonably. The 10 MHz 8088 is inherently slow. I'm amazed that Windows 3.0 didn't slow it down much further :-). Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT !