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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!world!hd From: hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Message-ID: <C7Do1o.5Mp@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <1tgme7$n0q@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 12:58:35 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <1tgme7$n0q@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: >> >> (...) >>will have this feature, too in the future. > >The DOS-UNDER-UNIX phenomenon is predicated on a virtual machine and BIOS >for that virtual machine. From what I got from a cursory overview of the >Linus "DOS emulator" code, it won't run windows (which needs a 286/386/486) >because it's based on doing vm86() calls. There is also the problem of >getting a ROM image to run, presumably by raping an IBM XT owned by you >and dumping its ROMs "only for use when the XT is not turned on" to make >it quasi-legal. > (...) There was just a pointer in comp.realtime to public domain ROM bios source. Quality, usability, etc. are completely unknown to me. Someone with the time to work on this could research that approach. Peter Dufault HD Associates