Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:22:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <lambert.org!terry@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru> To: root@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru (Alexey Pialkin) Cc: FreeBSD.ORG!sos@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru, atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru, riogrande.cs.tcu.edu!tam@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru, FreeBSD.ORG!hackers@VexedVox.stud.pu.ru Subject: Re: DOS emulator; Silly questions ... Message-ID: <199604112022.NAA04681@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604111120.PAA01473@localhost> from "Alexey Pialkin" at Apr 11, 96 03:20:20 pm
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> For what else you are going to use VM86 ? The main & sole purpose of it is > 8086 emulation => DOS emulation. The main purpose of VM86() in my book is BIOS driver support and fallback support for otherwise unsupportable hardware. DOS emulation is just an undesirable side-effect, since I believe that emulation environments should be implemented in such a way as to require particular processor architectures to function. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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