Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:42:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) Message-ID: <199610251842.LAA13997@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610250230.MAA16152@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 25, 96 12:00:04 pm
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> > 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.
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