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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 22:51:32 GMT
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In article <e8oDLc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
>
>> 
>> Actually, a better plan is a protected mode vm86() call so anything
>> anyone wants to write in kernel space could make a BIOS call if it
>> needed one.
>
>This may be called biosemu.
>
>Implementing this should be easier than dosemu.
>

Well Terry, the ball is now on your park :)

Amancio
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