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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!wupost!uunet!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Message-ID: <1993May21.135304.21185@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK. References: <1tgme7$n0q@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 13:53:02 +0000 Lines: 22 In article <1993May20.234750.5815@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <1tgme7$n0q@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: >> >>I have heard that Linux is capable of running a DOS emulator and >>even Win3.1 under it. Is it true and what are the chances that 386bsd >>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 When we had the ref mailing lists I remember someone was looking at porting the mach DOS emulator which apparently COULD run windows. Maybe this person could comment. Of course perhaps I read it wrong, it was a while ago. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk