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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
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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.
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