From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu May 2 16:24:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA04466 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 16:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA04451 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 16:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA01178; Fri, 3 May 1996 08:54:53 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605022324.IAA01178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New DOS emulator snapshot (fwd) To: pace@blitz.com (Pace Willisson) Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 08:54:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, smpatel@umiacs.UMD.EDU, emulation@freebsd.org, mycroft@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605022057.QAA17724@mytus.blitz.com> from "Pace Willisson" at May 2, 96 04:57:57 pm 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 Pace Willisson stands accused of saying: > I'm sorry for the confusion. I didn't notice the "netbsd" part in > the recent announcement of a new snapshot - I guess they are not as > concerned with avoiding significant changes. I'll wait until I see > an announcement of a freebsd update, and I'll give it another shot. I think it would be fair to say that CMH is trying to make doscmd 'work' in the absolute sense - he has made massive changes to the code and done some drastic cleaning work. It's obviously not practical from his point of view to do that, and try to maintain BSD/OS compatability. The primary goal of the FreeBSD port is, at this point, to get it to work at all 8). Following which, I plan to take Charles' changes and integrate them with the code necessary for BSD/OS and FreeBSD, with perhaps a little help 8) The end result should be portable, and work far better than the current item. All I/we need are some time and more hardware. (I have a box due in today that should, providence willing, be a suitable platform for this work. Now to work out how to weasel out of the two-week training course I'm supposed to be giving 8) > Pace -- ]] 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 [[