From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 11:46:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07843 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07831 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13997; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:42:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610251842.LAA13997@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:42:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610250230.MAA16152@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 25, 96 12:00:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > http://world.std.com/~bochs/ > > Yeah, well. It builds trivially under 2.1 (haven't tried on -current, > expect it will there too) with an include fix, but it's a bit limited > functionality-wise. It's also dog-slow, even compared to PCemu. > > What we _need_ is for the kernel vm86 stuff to happen so that DOScmd > can go ahead; this is basically predicated on Sean having the time to > do it, as none of the other x86 gurus seemed interested in helping us > deal with the problem we hit last time. The emulation code in DOScmd > is actually pretty good, and having brutally cleaned it, it's _much_ > easier to read and work on than the Linux dosemu code. > > Once _that_ works, we can do some _serious_ DOS emulation. Which only works on Intel platforms. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.