Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:13:12 +2 From: "Irvine Short" <ishort@pcm.co.za> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, emulation@freebsd.org Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI DOS emulator Message-ID: <199606260925.LAA05191@pcmgate.pcm.co.za>
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Mike / All Sorry to have offended you, it seems you have been working hard on PCEMU and I was misled into thinking that there was no useful DOS emulation for FreeBSD by the following message Jordan Hubbarb posted back in April: #Some of you may recall some coy comments on my part a few weeks back #about something being on the way vis-a-vis DOS emulation for FreeBSD #and that we shouldn't be too quick to jump on the Linux dosemu #bandwagon. #My reasons for refusing to elaborate with more details on this until #now were simply that I did not want to jeopardize my negotiations with #BSDI through Keith Bostic, whom I approached at USENIX '96 about a #possible "partnership" arrangement whereby we would get their DOS #emulator, something FreeBSD has needed for quite awhile, and BSDI #would get a bunch of extra people hacking on it, improving it in #various ways and, of course, feeding those changes back to BSDI as #part of the bargain. I will certainly give PCEMU a whirl. > #define MAJOR_ANNOYANCE > Are you interested in actively participating in the porting of this > program? If not, I suggest you either a) go away, or b) offer me and/or > Sean (more likely Sean) a healthy sum of money and we'll drop everything > else and get onto it. > > > Irvine Short > > Until then, it may be of interest that I've just added EMS support to the > PCEMU package; look for it to be committed after the 2.1.5 freeze is > over. If speed isn't critical, PCEMU is actually a _very_ useful tool. Regards, Irvine Short http://www.pcm.co.za/homepage/ishort/irv_home.html Technical Support Professional Computer Manufacturers Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-235084 Fax ++27-21-235089
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