Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 23:23:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, erich@lodgenet.com Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) Message-ID: <199610262123.XAA15269@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610261630.DAA23042@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 27, 96 03:00:30 am"
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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. ;-)
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