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 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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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.