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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:02:28 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2))
Message-ID:  <199610260532.PAA22209@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610252144.QAA03645@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Oct 25, 96 04:44:27 pm

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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.

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