19 Apr
2007
19 Apr
'07
1:18 p.m.
On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Warren Wolfe wrote:
Oh my, I was unaware of that...I thought it was DOS-only! Now I
MUST play with it again.
My office
in 1988/1989 used a product called "VM/386 Multiuser"
which did a similar thing, using Wyse terminals. Most DOS apps
worked very well, and it was fast. It used the virtual '86 mode of
the 80386 processor. We ran it on a cached 386DX/25 with three
terminals.
A very different sort of thing, and long after PC-MOS, but worth
mentioning. I'd love to find a copy of that again to play with; it
was good stuff.
I would point out that VM/386 did NOT just run DOS -- any
operating
system could be loaded in a virtual machine, and run independently,
along with DOS... or without DOS for that matter. I'm glad you liked
it... It was written by some friends of mine in Okemos, Michigan. It
was a remarkably stable environment -- I always thought they should
have
gotten rich and famous for their work.
Well the next time you speak with them, tell them I said their
product was fantastic. :-) My office ran it for a long time; it did
its job well and never gave us a lick of trouble.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL