Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:31:15 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Jeremiah Gowdy" <data@irev.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DOS Emulation KLD 
Message-ID:  <200012182131.eBILVFQ09212@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:51:09 PST." <002201c0691b$1cd1d140$aa240018@cx443070b> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > Any comments or suggestions welcome.
> >
> > Fix doscmd, which does the emulation in userland (which is even better
> > than running as a KLD).
> 
> What's wrong with doscmd ?  I hadn't noticed this one used BSD filesystems
> in addition to image files.  That was my #1 issue with some of the other
> emulators.

It needs a lot of TLC; there are plenty of places where it could be 
usefully extended as well.

One might also consider abandoning it entirely and making plex86 work, if 
one was really interested in that sort of thing.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
           V I C T O R Y   N O T   V E N G E A N C E




To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200012182131.eBILVFQ09212>