From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 11 05:03:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07070 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 05:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.pu.ru (gw.pu.ru [193.124.85.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA07044 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 05:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from VexedVox.stud.pu.ru (root@localhost) by gw.pu.ru (8.6.10/8.6.6) with UUCP id PAA14858 for freebsd.org!hackers; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:51:23 +0400 Organization: SPb State University Received: (from root@localhost) by localhost (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01473; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:20:21 +0400 From: Alexey Pialkin Message-Id: <199604111120.PAA01473@localhost> Subject: Re: DOS emulator; Silly questions ... To: FreeBSD.ORG!sos@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:20:20 +0000 (WET DST) Cc: atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru, riogrande.cs.tcu.edu!tam@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru, FreeBSD.ORG!hackers@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru In-Reply-To: <199604110959.LAA23193@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.ORG" at Apr 11, 96 11:59:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Tam Weng Seng stands accused of saying: > > It appears to be a historic wart. See my patches as previously referred. > > > > > 2. Has anybody gotten it to compile and work ??? > > > > Yes and no, in that order. There are some kernel interaction problems > > that aren't yet resolved, and until we've got this sorted out, the > > remainder is effectively impossible to test. > > Ahem, it shouldn't be much trouble in getting these userlevel things > going, the main difficulty is to get VM86 support into the kernel, > which is a totally different matter (which has been looked at by > various people, me including). It is also imperative that the VM86 > support be done in a way so it can be used for other things,, or > this will just be another bloat to the system... For what else you are going to use VM86 ? The main & sole purpose of it is 8086 emulation => DOS emulation. P.S. win95 is a worse example of VM86 using ........ -- /====================================U _a' /( / Alexey Pialkin N ~~ _}\ \( - / Internet: root@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru I \(,_(,\\ / FidoNet: 2:5030/247 X ._>, _>,``==>