> There are many ways to run Dos programs, the one I use is OS/2 Warp. All dos apps are run separately, with different autoexec.bat files, variables can be individually tuned. Using the HPFS file system results in a noticeable improvement in Arachne over FAT.
> Further with OS/2 one can run Win 3.1, unix using Xfree86 or emx, win95 using Odin, there even was a Mac emulator. Multitasking is it's forte, running Arachne online while minimized. I find for many Dos programs that a graphical interface is worse rather than better. That from upgrading from dos to windows versions. Even Linux I am sure has a dos box to run apps in. > Reb Linux has a dosemu, which is not really an emulator, since the user must have an actual DOS. I think they suggest FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/). I always found Arachne much slower in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM than in straight DOS, though I never put Arachne on an HPFS partition since I wanted to reserve the possibility of running Arachne in straight DOS. Modem access in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM was about 40% to 50% the speed of modem access in straight DOS, using 56K modem. OS/2 does not actually run Unix programs, though emx helps port such programs to OS/2. There is an XFree86 OS/2 port. I downloaded Win32s from Hobbes, which enabled running some Win95 programs in OS/2, including Freecell, and 50WAYS.EXE found on new Iomega Zip 250 disks. I know they were developing Odin but haven't followed it since about 10 months ago. -- Tom Mueller
