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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:24:10 -0600
From:      jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
To:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   doscmd vs ???
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970130152410.jlemon@right.PCS>

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  I've wanted to get into the kernel source, and figured that the vm86
emulation was as good of a place to start as any.  So after a crash course
on Intel architecture, and some mucking with the vm86 patches, I have 
doscmd running on a -current system.  Running in this case being that I
can run all the executables in testbin, as well as booting Dos 5.0, and 
running the instbsdi.exe binary, etc).

  I have no other Dos programs to run, simply because I don't own any DOS
programs other than Dos5.0 and whatever install/support programs that came
with the various hardware I've bought.

  I was looking at fixing the vm86 exit point from the kernel, as well as 
possibly adding in VME/VIF/VIP support, if I can figure out how.  My question
is what advantage does doscmd have over linux's dosemu?  IE: why not just
use dosemu, with the appropriate BSD kernel support?

  (And yes, I'm completely ignorant of intel architecture up until about a 
week ago.)
--
Jonathan



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