Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!idec!camcon!mrh From: mrh@camcon.co.uk (Mark Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Merge386 - Mixing DOS and UNIX Keywords: MS-DOS UNIX Message-ID: <2171@titan.camcon.co.uk> Date: 1 Dec 88 09:40:17 GMT Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK Lines: 20 Do you have any experience with a product called Merge386 from Locus? It includes UNIX and MS-DOS for $795 and allows DOS to run as a UNIX process. I shan't bore everyone with all the details, as it is reviewed in the current issue of Byte, but it looks very nice, allows mixing of MS-DOS and UNIX commands and shared file space. I'd be interested to hear of any first hand experience, and in particular comments on its use of memory. The Byte article says that you need at least 2.5M, but does not say how useful it is at this level. The article goes on to describe benchmarks with up to four DOS processes (running concurrently under UNIX), but does not say how much RAM was needed to achieve this. -- -------------------or <...!mcvax!ukc!idec!camcon!mrh> | Mark Hughes | Telex: 265871 (MONREF G) quoting: MAG70076 |(Compware . CCL) | BT Gold: 72:MAG70076 ------------------- Teleph: Cambridge (UK) (0)223-358855