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  • ...P-11 were no longer cost effective. In the late 1990s DEC sold its PDP-11 software business to a company named [http://www.mentec.com/ Mentec], and DEC then e ...it is possible for a hobbyist to run RSTS/E on a [[personal computer]] in software emulation as fast or faster than it originally ran on the real hardware.
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  • The Muddle source code is available from the SIMH software site [http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/zork-mdl.zip here]. Likewise, Bo ...nik's DECUS version 2.6A (18-Oct-80), ported to MS-DOS by Kevin Black. (an MS-DOS executable of this |version is in games/pc/dungn26b.zip)
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  • ...ft]] material; '''Xenix''' is the form usually used now) was Microsoft's [[software port|port]] of AT&T [[UNIX]]; it was a [[portable]] [[operating system]] wi == Software ==
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  • ...ft wanted to target the [[Intel 80386|i386]] processor, and work on 32-bit software, while IBM wanted to deliver to the IBM AT customers it had sold to, and th ...mentioned in the book ''Inside OS/2'', is clearly an evolution from the [[MS-DOS]] 4.00M, the multi-tasking version of DOS. There was clearly a need for an
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  • ...II emulators, but... Windows XP and Vista maintain the ability to run 8086 MS-DOS binaries on the 32 bit x86 platform, at least, so you can run the DOS versi [[Category: Application Software]]
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  • [[Image:MS-DOS 5.0.jpg|thumb|200px|right|MS-DOS 5.0 under Virtual PC.]] '''MS-DOS''' was made popular by [[Microsoft]] for not only being the bundled [[opera
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  • driver software on it. For which processor and OS was the software written? that software would cost 5 times as much and it just wouldn't exist at all.
    21 KB (3,783 words) - 02:41, 17 December 2018
  • ...was released, on March 17, 1992. This version doesn't share its disk with MS-DOS or any other OS's, and uses a VAX style disktab/disklabel, making it diffic ...en-source/porting-unix-to-the-386-a-practical-appr/184408470 Designing the Software Specification]
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  • ...d [[pkzip]] files. It's also handy for converting lots of text files from MS-DOS (Windows) format to UNIX or vice versa with the -a/-aa flags. [[Category:Compression Software]]
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  • MS-DOS/Windows ....................... 24 MS-DOS/Windows ....................... 32
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  • ...OS that could run 32 bit POSIX binaries, 16 bit OS/2 1.x binaries, 16 bit MS-DOS & Windows binaries with an improved 32bit OS/2 API & Windowing system. Mic ...1.2, Microsoft Programmer’s Library on CD-ROM, Quick Basic 1.0 for Mac, MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions 2.0, COBOL Optimizing Compiler 3.0, Flight Simulator 3.0
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  • ...t want to have such a large 'break' with their main product of the time, [[MS-DOS]], so they kept on looking for ways to improve on it. Microsoft had become ...culminating with a 286 version of Windows 2.0 that could run more then one MS-DOS session, although it was very unstable, and a version for the 386 that coul
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  • Doom, written by the ever popular [[iD software]], was released December 10th, 1993 and was one of the most influential vid ...[[C (language)|C]], on the [[NeXTSTEP]] Operating system, and ported to [[MS-DOS]] with the [[Watcom C]] compiler. It was built as a [[DPMI]] executable no
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  • ...ots, RAM etc. This being a hardware solution would allow the Amiga to run MS-DOS programs, not only at full speed, but in a window, and of course allow the ...Amiga 600 also included a PCMCIA slot, and an IDE controller. However the software to boot from the IDE interface was NOT included in the default ROMS that sh
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  • ...e and system software. The emulation of an 8086 processor is the result of software using hardware:</Blockquote> ...late I/O instructions or to let the hardware execute them directly without software intervention.</blockquote></blockquote>
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  • ...uld sell it to IBM very cheaply on the condition that they could also sell MS-DOS to any other OEM that may be interested. IBM was still in its monopoly tria ...y found [[86-DOS]], bought the rights and had it ported to the IBM PC as [[MS-DOS]].
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  • ...lat address space, this was a major problem, as it hampered the design & [[software port|porting]] of large programs. ...owever this is what made [[OS/2]] feasible as now it could offer limited [[MS-DOS]] compatibility.
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  • 2. Choose the Software Library option. 3. From the Software Library option, select the option Host
    279 KB (34,581 words) - 02:21, 17 December 2018
  • ...X-11/780 provides an excellent hardware environment for running UNIX and C software. ...f computer system architecture appear in Section 3. The authors comment on software portability in Section 4.
    49 KB (7,745 words) - 13:29, 6 May 2023
  • ...memory (RAM) plus access to expanded memory through use of a built-in LIM software driver. ...uickly as possible, while protecting the customer's investment in existing software."
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