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From: Terry Lambert <lambert.org!terry@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru>
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Subject: Re: DOS emulator; Silly questions ...
To: root@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru (Alexey Pialkin)
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> For what else you are going to use VM86 ? The main & sole purpose of it is 
> 8086 emulation => DOS emulation. 

The main purpose of VM86() in my book is BIOS driver support and
fallback support for otherwise unsupportable hardware.

DOS emulation is just an undesirable side-effect, since I believe
that emulation environments should be implemented in such a way as
to require particular processor architectures to function.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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