From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 22:32:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA29087 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:32:38 -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 WAA29079 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA22209; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:02:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610260532.PAA22209@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:02:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610252144.QAA03645@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Oct 25, 96 04:44:27 pm 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 Eric L. Hernes stands accused of saying: > > >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. > > I've got a piece of hardware here with an embedded 80186 that I'd like > to emulate, if I didn't have to spend much time on it. That's kind > of what I was looking at here. Then someone mentioned adding 286 > support to pcemu and I thought this might be a starting point, having some > 80386 support etc... PCEmu does the 186 already. The biggest job of work you're likely to come up against is emlating the rest of your hardware; depending on how well you understand it that may not be too bad either. -- ]] 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 [[