Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:44:27 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS emulation (was Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)) Message-ID: <199610252144.QAA03645@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:00:04 %2B0930." <199610250230.MAA16152@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith writes: >Eric L. Hernes stands accused of saying: >> >> Have any of you all had a look at bochs? It's on my list >> of `to look at' and maybe do a port of, but it's low priority. >> It's supposed to have most of 80386 stuff working. >> >> http://world.std.com/~bochs/ > >Yeah, well. It builds trivially under 2.1 (haven't tried on -current, >expect it will there too) with an include fix, but it's a bit limited >functionality-wise. It's also dog-slow, even compared to PCemu. I've got a piece of hardware here with an embedded 80186 that I'd like to emulate, if I didn't have to spend much time on it. That's kind of what I was looking at here. Then someone mentioned adding 286 support to pcemu and I thought this might be a starting point, having some 80386 support etc... > >What we _need_ is for the kernel vm86 stuff to happen so that DOScmd and how. I wish I could help here, but that stuff is just a bit out of my league :( > >-- >]] 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 [[ eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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