Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:40:53 -0800 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Status report of vm86/dos emulation Message-ID: <199702240140.RAA21099@kithrup.com>
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Today, I grabbed OpenDOS Lite from Caldera (http://www.caldera.com; I don't like their license, but I'm only using it for evaluation purposes, so it's [temporarily] acceptable). Using doscmd, I was able to install OpenDOS under FreeBSD. There are a couple of problems still (I am able to hang my computer completely by just starting doscmd up), but, all in all, it did work. I hope to either make patches relative to 2.2-GAMMA available, or have the changes checked into -current, sometime later this week (or maybe next weekend). When I do either of those, I'll have detailed instructions on what I did to install OpenDOS. Many thanks and kudos to Michael Smith and Jonathon Lemon. And, it's *truly* spooky watching DOS run on my machine ;). Sean. P.S. As an aside, I've (sadly) come to the conclusion that dos emulation is essentially worthless. WINE or Wabi (or similar) is the way to go, it seems. Oh, you could probably use a DOS emulator to do the installation, and having a decent DOS emulator built into WINE or Wabi (or similar) is probably a really good idea... but there's not a lot that you get with a pure DOS emulator, which is what we currently have. Maybe if/when we get DOSEMU working, we may have more luck. SEF
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