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From: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: MSDOS/UNIX MACHINE ??
Message-ID: <163@ho95e.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 21:48:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: ho95e.163
Posted: Fri Sep 13 21:48:06 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 07:43:29 EDT
References: <750@gitpyr.UUCP> <182@chinet.UUCP> <162@ho95e.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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> > In article <750@gitpyr.UUCP> kevin@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin Campbell) writes:
> > >I have a friend who is in need of some information, and he doesn't have 
> > >access to USENET.
> > >  He wants to know if there is a micro that supports MSDOS *and* UNIX?
> > >(or possibly Xenix).. Also, what are the basic differences between
> > >Unix & Xenix?
> Do you mean "The hardware can do MSDOS or UNIX depending on what data is on
> your disks" (in which case almost any PC compatible will do", or
> 	"You can have MSDOS stuff and UNIX stuff of the same disk, but
> only one OS is active at a time" (VENIX-86 will handle this, for PC
> compatibles; you can partition a hard disk so VENIX gets 8 meg and MSDOS gets
> 2 Meg.  Alternatively, for most PC UNIX versions, you can give UNIX the
> entire disk, and boot/run from floppies if you want MSDOS.  Or you could get
> a Bernoulli Box or Sunflower 10-Meg removable disk, and pop in the disk for
> whichever OS you feel like running.)
> 	Or do you mean something like "You boot up UNIX, but if you
> want to run an MSDOS application while UNIX is active you can".  There are
> several boards made for this sort of thing (I don't know their names) like
> 68000 boards that plug into a PC bus and run UNIX, or 80*86 boards that
> plug into the PC bus and run MSDOS (normally faster than a vanilla IBM-PC)
> which would probably let you run UNIX on the main PC and MSDOS on the add-on.
> But basically you're talking weird here.
> -- 
> ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

Foo! Open my big mouth and see what it gets me.  I was just cleaning off my
desk and found a blurb related to that last item.

From Unisource Software, 71 Bent Street, Cambridge MA 02141 1-617-491-1264:
	"THE CONNECTOR(tm) is a new program that allow DOS applications 
	to run under the UNIX System.
		VENIX Version
		PC/IX Version"

It goes on to say that The Connector is a one-diskette program that
can be loaded onto your hard disk.  You can set things up to boot in
DOS or boot in UNIX; you type "unix" to go from DOS to Unix, and "dos" 
to go from UNIX to DOS.  You can also run DOS programs directly form
UNIX "by creating a special link".  I assume this takes some work,
but you can then type "lotus" to run LOTUS 1-2-3 from UNIX.  You can
have UNIX process running in the background  while DOS things are running.

Price: $295
Availability: "September, 1984"  (I don't know when the blurb was printed)
Hardware:
	IBM PC/XT or  PC/AT with >=512K memory, 10M hard Disk, and
	PC/IX or VENIX plus PC-DOS.

I have no idea if it's been adapted to run on compatibles or not.
-- 
## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs