It may not have very much appeal for the mainstream, but there will be tecchies out there that can’t wait to get hold of a copy – V Communications Inc of San Jose has come out with a piece of software called System Commander, which enables users to have up to 42 iAPX-86 operating systems loaded onto their personal computer in the same way that mainframe users run the production MVS workload in one virtual machine while they are testing a new MVS release in another. System Commander will manage up to 16 different versions of MS-DOS and up to 26 other operating systems. The various operating systems are listed in the menu that appears when you boot the machine. Disk repartioning is not required and System Commander handles CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files for each version of MS-DOS and uses no resident memory. It is available now at $100.
