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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: DOS emulator; Silly questions ...
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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> Well, if you're in a position to see what CMH did to the NetBSD vm86()
> code to shim it to doscmd and then bring their vm86 code over, please
> do.  Meanwhile it's worth noting that BSDI appear to have bent over 
> backwards to avoid using vm86() to implement this, for reasons not yet clear.

Pretty obvious to me: non-Intel architectures can't ever support vm86().


					Terry Lambert
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