From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 22:13:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA28247 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA28241 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA22149; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:40:58 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610260510.OAA22149@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:40:57 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610251842.LAA13997@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 25, 96 11:42:46 am 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 Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > Once _that_ works, we can do some _serious_ DOS emulation. > > Which only works on Intel platforms. 8-(. ... until someone takes one of the freely-available CPU emulators (from PCEmu, Bochs, Willows TWIN etc), makes it an LKM and teaches the kernel to run processes with the synthetic PSL_VM bit set using it. Geez Terry, I even took this idea from your old postings on the topic 8) BTW, you mentioned a RedBook on the whole v86 thing in the OS/2 perspective; I had a look at the RedBOoks site but it's a pain to navigate and I found nothing. Do you still have the reference? Is the book available online? > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.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 [[