From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Oct 29 08:56:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA08181 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:56:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA08172 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:56:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pgiffuni@localhost) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.0/8.8.0) id LAA07012; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:57:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:57:31 -0500 (EST) From: Pedro Giffuni To: Michael Smith cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NetBSD emulation. In-Reply-To: <199610290102.LAA08278@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks to evryone that replied, just wanted a "reality check" On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > NetBSD has a couple of DOS emulators; the Linux 'dosemu' and the BSDi > 'DOScmd'. Sean Fagan and I have been working on DOScmd for FreeBSD, but > Sean has been too busy to get the kernel bits working. Aside from this, > it works quite well. > Let me guess: their ability to run dosemu has some relation with their Linux emulation? > > Does FreeBSD run NetBSD software? > > Some. The missing component here is the vm86 support. > Now I understand...the old Mach stuff. I was thinking the other day..shouldn't Lites be considered another port? (under ports/kernels !?? 8) ) after all, it requires a *BSD to run. Pedro. > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ >