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Subject: Re: status of windows, dos and svr4 emulation 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Whats the status of windows emulation? When xwin from Willows Software 
> will be ready for freebsd? Are there any other windows binary emulators?

1. I don't know about xwin, Willows seems to have gone on to other things.

2. We're trying to get WABI 2.2 certified but that's slow going.

> Whats the status of BSDi's rundos emulator? Why NetBSD's version of 
> dosemu cant be ported to FreeBSD?

Michael Smith and Sean Eric Fagan have been asking for help on rundos
for ages now - if you're willing to help out, please indicate as much
to this list since help is what they need, not more people asking when
it will be ready. :-).  Simply porting NetBSD's dosemu is also not all
that simple since our kernel interfaces are different.

					Jordan