Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 09:02:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: randir <goehrigd AT gort DOT canisius DOT edu>
To: Andrew McLachlan <MCLACHLA AT tui DOT lincoln DOT ac DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: OpenDOS announcement...
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Andrew McLachlan wrote:

> > 1.  Windows 3.1x compatibility.
> 
> Can anyone give details of incompatibility. I have been running
> WfW 3.11 on Novell DOS (various updates) for some time without 
> problems.

	Microsoft occasionally uses DOS & adds on to DOS without
	explicitly doing so.  As such some things such as vshare386
	which work transperantly with MS-DOS become personal issuses
	for OD users..


> Which major DOS apps are unreliable?

	Those that use alternate DPMI programs... (ofcourse one could
	just set the default to something different, but you may loose
	some of the nice features of OD's DPMI..