You could make it work...but good luck running anything resembling an application afterwards.
*shudder*
I remember those days!
device=dxma0mod.sys
device=dxmc0mod.sys
(need NetBIOS?)
device=dxmt0mod.sys
Shared folders on a System 38 or AS-400?
Add in IPX/SPX and IP protocol stacks, and you're hosed if you wanted to actually do anything useful on your PC.
Unless you were using MS or PC DOS 6.0 and upper memory management (preferably with QEMM from Quarterdesk - I've still got a copy of that in my basement!) Word Perfect for DOS didn't have enough RAM to run...
Those were the days!
Mark
I was a DEC Field Engineer for 14 years. Worked on everything from PDP15 to VAX 8750. I still miss VMS. I once spent four weeks in Bedford, MA in January going thru VMS Internals and Data Structures. It was a great time. I now support Microbloat products and am still waiting for them to produce an enterprise wide OS.