From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jun 20 20:48:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA13597 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13592 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA08565; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:50:54 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606210420.NAA08565@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Status of DOS emulator? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:50:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu, FreeBSD-emulation@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1437.835292526@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 20, 96 10:42:06 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > I am pondering a switch to NetBSD because it will run DOSEMU. I want to > > know if staying with FreeBSD will be worth the wait, and how long that > > wait will be. > > I thought NetBSD used the same code now - the BSDI dos emulator (which > is called Rundos, not DOSEMU - DOSEMU comes from the Linux camp). NetBSD have both the BSDI emulator (doscmd) and a port of DOSEMU. Rundos is even more moribund (but possibly originally technically superior to either of the above; certainly more ambitious). > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[