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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2340 comp.os.linux.misc:13078 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <hastyCo5p59.MvK@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <hastyCo2r27.Js2@netcom.com> <Co40Cs.16v4@austin.ibm.com> <2ocl4a$dr4@acme.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 17:12:44 GMT Lines: 40 In article <2ocl4a$dr4@acme.gatech.edu> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) writes: >rajat@austin.ibm.com (Rajat Datta) writes: > >>Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: >>>I am not asking for a dos emulator I just boot dos. There is very >>>little need in my case to run dos stuff under FreeBSD. Perhaps >>>some linux users have a *great* desire to do so :) > >>I know you've got a smiley following what you've said, but you've got >>to be kidding. This is like saying "I don't need multi-tasking. If I >>ever need to do anything else, I just stop what I'm doing and start >>the other program." > >Don't believe Amancio; I've seen him imploring *BSD authors, as well >as myself, to port dosemu to *BSD. Like I said before, those DOS >emulation grapes must be getting pretty sour by now. > >Extra functionality is never in itself harmful. Why are we even >debating if dosemu is useful? Hmmm.... You are right that I was asking for a dosemu in the past. My sole purpose was to provide a mechanism to initialize devices such as SVGA cards. However, since I am pretty much out of the X server loop right now -- I am leaving the worry about initializing the svga cards to others -- a big relief :) Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X