running a PC app on a Sun ( V12#087)

Karl Anderson karl at forest.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Apr 26 06:52:31 AEST 1991


>We have users who run in house developed applications on their PC's. 
>Does anyone know of a method or a product that will allow users on a 
>Sun workstation to access their PC's and run the apps (on the PC's 
>CPU), but with the screen/keyboard I/O going to/from the Sun (akin 
>to a remote login).  Since DOS is not mutli user and doesn't support 
>logging in, I can't think of how you would support this. I don't want 
>to modify any code on the PC app, I want this to work seamlessly.

Quarterdeck Office Systems, (213) 314-4255, claims that DESQVIEW/X will
allow you to do this with "many" DOS applications if the PC is a 32-bit
(386 or 486) machine.  I was told last month by someone at Quarterdeck
that DESQVIEW/X will be released this Summer.

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