From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Feb 24 15:18:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27378 for emulation-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA27226 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (root@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id AAA21601; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:15:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id XAA24577; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:59:24 +0100 (MET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.4/8.7.3) id WAA05181; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:20:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:20:56 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199702242120.WAA05181@plm.xs4all.nl> From: Peter Mutsaers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sean Eric Fagan Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Status report of vm86/dos emulation In-Reply-To: <199702240140.RAA21099@kithrup.com> References: <199702240140.RAA21099@kithrup.com> Sender: owner-emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:40:53 -0800, Sean Eric Fagan said: SEF> P.S. As an aside, I've (sadly) come to the conclusion that SEF> dos emulation is essentially worthless. WINE or Wabi (or SEF> similar) is the way to go, it seems. Oh, you could probably SEF> use a DOS emulator to do the installation, and having a SEF> decent DOS emulator built into WINE or Wabi (or similar) is SEF> probably a really good idea... but there's not a lot that you SEF> get with a pure DOS emulator, which is what we currently SEF> have. Maybe if/when we get DOSEMU working, we may have more SEF> luck. SEF For some of us it is really useful. My main reason to switch to DOS/Windows is an electroninc banking application under DOS. It would be great if I could run it under FreeBSD. -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have