Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:31:28 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: pgiffuni@apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NetBSD emulation. Message-ID: <199610300101.LAA17513@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961029114811.6982B-100000@apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni" at Oct 29, 96 11:57:31 am
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Pedro Giffuni stands accused of saying: > > > > NetBSD has a couple of DOS emulators; the Linux 'dosemu' and the BSDi > > 'DOScmd'. Sean Fagan and I have been working on DOScmd for FreeBSD, but > > Sean has been too busy to get the kernel bits working. Aside from this, > > it works quite well. > > > Let me guess: their ability to run dosemu has some relation with their > Linux emulation? None whatsoever. It has to do with John Kohl having lots of free time 8 ) > > > Does FreeBSD run NetBSD software? > > > > Some. The missing component here is the vm86 support. > > > Now I understand...the old Mach stuff. No, the Mach vm86 stuff is different again. (Yes, I have the mdos sources; both DOSCmd and dosemu borrow liberally from it.) > Pedro. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.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 [[
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