From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Dec 4 19:51:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id TAA11185 for emulation-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA11180 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:51:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA23637; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:51:25 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:51:25 -0800 From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199612050351.TAA23637@kithrup.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, vitjok@fasts.com Subject: Re: status of windows, dos and svr4 emulation Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. Our kernel interfaces are *very* differnet -- the killer is that our locore.s is radically different these days, and only one or two people understand it ;). I do not happen to be one of those, so the inexplicable panics that are almost certainly due to stack manipulation problems can be... difficult ;). Sean.