Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:16:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) Message-ID: <199610252116.OAA14279@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610251901.NAA11438@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 25, 96 01:01:30 pm
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> > 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.
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