a question about DOS emulation in Win XP

[zscoundrel]

Why not you just port the application to Linux and be done with the 
evil-empire forever???

Monty J. Harder wrote:

>>This is not a linux question, but I think that some of you might know the
>>answer.  A friend at work wants to get a new computer that will stand
>>
> alone,
> 
>>not attached to the intranet or anything, and bascially run one program.
>>The program they want to run is a DOS program.  I know that Windows XP has
>>an emulator.  Will this emulator run DOS programs?  If so, how much
>>degredation of performance is there?  Thanks for the help.
>>
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>   Why would you want to do this?  If it's a DOS program, you don't need the
> overhead of XP.  If you have a legal copy of Win9x you can transfer to the
> machine in question, you could do sys c: and it'll boot into Real Mode, aka
> "DOS 7".  Failing that, you might be able to get Caldera OpenDOS (or
> whatever it's called these days) or some other real DOS.
> 
>   But if you insist, the answer is "some of them".  The closer the program
> gets to the bare iron, the greater the risk it won't work in XP (or any
> other emulator, such as Wine, actually).
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