From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 26 18:30:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA27151 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:30:22 -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 SAA27142 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA23955; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:59:47 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610270129.LAA23955@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:59:47 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, erich@lodgenet.com In-Reply-To: <199610262123.XAA15269@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 26, 96 11:23:36 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 J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > 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 I'm sure I pestered you into adding that; you didn't actually commit them? > 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. It's a bit light on hardware emulation perhaps, but otherwise I'm inclined to agree with you. > So if anybody is willing to take over the maintenance of this port, > get back to me. Seeing as I'm already carrying the DOS emulation flag, I guess I'm the bunny for the job. > cheers, J"org -- ]] 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 [[