From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Oct 28 17:03:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24402 for emulation-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24318 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:03:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA08278; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:32:00 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610290102.LAA08278@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: NetBSD emulation. To: pgiffuni@apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:31:59 +1030 (CST) Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Pedro Giffuni" at Oct 28, 96 04:33:56 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 Pedro Giffuni stands accused of saying: > > I read on an OpenBSD list, NetBSD runs some DOS software, does anyone know > about it? (Who wrote it, can it be useful in FreeBSD?) NetBSD has a couple of DOS emulators; the Linux 'dosemu' and the BSDi 'DOScmd'. Sean Fagan and I have been working on DOScmd for FreeBSD, but Sean has been too busy to get the kernel bits working. Aside from this, it works quite well. > Does FreeBSD run NetBSD software? Some. The missing component here is the vm86 support. > Will you be working more on the SCO emulation now that it is freely > available? There are still programs that dont run, specially Motif stuff. Not me; too much on my plate as it is 8( > Pedro. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[