From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 02:26:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA09798 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 02:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA09786 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 02:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA09594; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 02:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 02:26:56 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: Lemming cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PROGRAMMING In-Reply-To: <3353E92A.2FC9@renc.igs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Lemming wrote: > I program in assembly language, is there any drastic changes I have to > do in order to use FREE BSD. I don't know much about it, but I know it's possible. I think there's been a thread going on the list about that lately. Maybe one of those people could help you. But I DO know that assembly is possible. > > Also is there a dos emulator on it. I love some of my dos programs. There IS a DOS emulator in the ports/packages collection, called pcemu, but I believe it jsut emulates at the 8088 level. I have heard that a more advanced DOS binary emulator is in the works, based on Linuix's and BSDi's emulators, but I don't know when or if this is going to happen. > > What about a dual partition. One harddrive for DOS one for FREEBSD, is > it possbile Oh, sure. Look through the FAQ at the website (www.freebsd.org); it talks all about it. I had a Win95 and a FreeBSD partition on a single ahrd disc for a while. > -- > Lemming of Willow Tree / Scrape / SUPERFUNK (a.k.a. Everett Sloan) > +-----+ E-Mail: juggernaut@renc.igs.net > |(___)| esloan@geocities.com > |(o o)| abacus_@hotmail.com > | |_| | HomePage: http://www.renc.igs.net/~juggernaut > +-----+ http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/5154 > http://www.angelfire.com/ca/superfunk > "640kb should be enough for everbody" Bill Gates, Miscrosoft, 1981 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*