Difference between revisions of "VM/386"
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| − | VM/386 was a multitasking multiuser product for 386 based computers. It was put out by the seemingly now defunct [http://www.igcinc.com/ IGC] corporation. | + | VM/386 was a multitasking multiuser product for 386 based computers. It was put out by the seemingly now defunct [http://www.igcinc.com/ IGC] corporation. VM/386 is a multitasking OS that takes advantage of the vm86 feature of the [[80386]] and higher processor. Like Novell Netware, it is launched from within MS-DOS, but after that it runs in protected mode. IGC was part of the committee that designed [[DPMI]] so I'd assume later versions of the product can run DPMI executables. |
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Revision as of 15:54, 19 February 2011
VM/386 was a multitasking multiuser product for 386 based computers. It was put out by the seemingly now defunct IGC corporation. VM/386 is a multitasking OS that takes advantage of the vm86 feature of the 80386 and higher processor. Like Novell Netware, it is launched from within MS-DOS, but after that it runs in protected mode. IGC was part of the committee that designed DPMI so I'd assume later versions of the product can run DPMI executables.
I've got versions 1.2 and 1.22 and neither run under any kind of emulation so I haven't been able to do much testing.
