From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Oct 29 17:03:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA15951 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:03:57 -0800 (PST) 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 RAA15942 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA17513; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:31:29 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610300101.LAA17513@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: NetBSD emulation. To: pgiffuni@apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:31:28 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, emulation@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Pedro Giffuni" at Oct 29, 96 11:57:31 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 Pedro Giffuni stands accused of saying: > > > > NetBSD has a couple of DOS emulators; the Linux 'dosemu' and the BSDi > > 'DOScmd'. Sean Fagan and I have been working on DOScmd for FreeBSD, but > > Sean has been too busy to get the kernel bits working. Aside from this, > > it works quite well. > > > Let me guess: their ability to run dosemu has some relation with their > Linux emulation? None whatsoever. It has to do with John Kohl having lots of free time 8 ) > > > Does FreeBSD run NetBSD software? > > > > Some. The missing component here is the vm86 support. > > > Now I understand...the old Mach stuff. No, the Mach vm86 stuff is different again. (Yes, I have the mdos sources; both DOSCmd and dosemu borrow liberally from it.) > Pedro. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[