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From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
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Subject: Re: doscmd vs ??? 
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Jonathan,

>   I have no other Dos programs to run, simply because I don't own any DOS
> programs other than Dos5.0 and whatever install/support programs that came
> with the various hardware I've bought.

If I can be of any assistance with testing please let me know. I've 
got copies of Wordperfect, MS Word, Lotus , Turbo C/Pascal 
etc...etc.. 

I had a play with doscmd and it seemed to run various things that 
pcemu wouldn't. But it works both ways. The speed is quite superior 
of course. 

>   (And yes, I'm completely ignorant of intel architecture up until about a 
> week ago.)

Wow. I'm still trying to wrap all of my mind around C... Sometimes it 
"feels like having your brain smashed out with a slice of lemon 
wrapped around a large gold brick". :-)

Would there be much difficulty is getting a set of kernel patches for 
us release users (2.1.6) ?? I guess was I'm asking is - Does the new 
vm86 kernel code rely on facilities in current?

I'm really happy to hear that things are going again on the dos 
emulation front. Thanks.

Best regards,

Joel...