From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 26 14:43:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13425 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:43:42 -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 OAA13414 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA20483 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA05869; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:40:51 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA15223; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:40:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA15269; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:23:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610262123.XAA15269@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:23:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, erich@lodgenet.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610261630.DAA23042@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 27, 96 03:00:30 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] 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 As Michael Smith wrote: > Trust me; you can run real-mode '286 code on a V20/V30. I have done > this. I _believe_ that the Hedley emulator is up to this. No, it doesn't emulate 80186 instructions. I've also been thinking about implementing this, but i'm afraid i'll simply ran out of time. I've already posted this to the freebsd-ports list, but got no response: i would like to pass over the maintenance of the `pcemu' port to somebody else who can dedicate more time to it. I've still got some patches for EMS support sitting in the queue, there's Serge's networking patch, there are lots of ideas around (including some of my own like enabling access to physical floppy drives and tty/COM lines). I feel that i will never get round to do all of this, even though i still think the Hedley emulator is technically a too fine piece of software to see it falling down some day... too bad that the original author has no longer any time or interest in pursuing it further. So if anybody is willing to take over the maintenance of this port, get back to me. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)