From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 14:21:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15931 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15924 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA17226 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA14279; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:16:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610252116.OAA14279@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:16:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199610251901.NAA11438@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 25, 96 01:01:30 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 > > Which only works on Intel platforms. 8-(. > > Yep. To expect more than that is foolishness. Insignia software has > spents *millions* of dollars on their x86 emulation software, and it > still isn't very impressive. Expecting that a single-individual or > group of individuals could produce something that is even on par with > their product is silly. In other words, "This great, hulking, inefficient company can't do it, what makes you think it can be done?". Bleah. > You'd have better luck building 'translator' code that changes the x86 > opcodes into native instructions on each platform, which DEC and IBM > have done. Lets see you use this as a generic framework to run Alpha binaries on MIPS boxes. If you can do that, then I'll admit defeat. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.