From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 26 14:36:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA17671 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17665 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA19238; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:36:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:36:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: Gary Clark II cc: Joe Greco , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOS Emulator (was: Re: JDK 1.02) In-Reply-To: <199608262005.PAA02165@main.gbdata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Whatever happened with the BSDI DOS emulator? As I recall, Jordan posted > > a note that BSDI had agreed to provide it to us to help prevent > > stagnation... and I don't recall hearing a word since. > > > > Just wondering. I don't have any DOS software anyways but I know it was > > of some interest to other folks. > > > Hello, > > >From what I can tell it died on the vine... I've got the source here, > but there are just way too many kernel changes needed and we have > diverged from 4.4-BSD way too much.:) > Gary So there will be no DOS Emulation. Pity. I would have liked to run a few DOS apps on my machine without rebooting to Win95. When DOS dies it would be nice to have it to work with like the C64 and Apple II emulators. I personally would like to see Win32 emulation, but I don't know if that will ever get advanced enough. Just my .02