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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Dosemu?
Date: 13 Jan 1995 07:01:14 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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References: <TRI.95Jan1185410@pooh.tky.hut.fi>
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In-reply-to: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE's message of Sun, 8 Jan 95 15:53:43 GMT
>>>>> "Nora" == Nora E Etukudo <nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> writes:
In article <95Jan08.154722.24207@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) writes:
Nora> in article
Nora> <HEIN.95Jan7103247@quetzalcoatl.in.tu-clausthal.de>, from 07
Nora> Jan 1995 09:32:47 GMT, Hein@Informatik.TU-Clausthal.de also
Nora> known as "Jochen Hein", wrote [shorted]: [...]
>> >>>>> "Timo" == Timo J Rinne <tri@pooh.tky.hut.fi> writes:
Timo> I wonder if anyone has considered a possibility to port
Timo> Dosemu (from Linux) to FreeBSD. I looked into the source
Nora> [...]
>> There are also a couple of other dos/i86-emulators out there,
>> which may be better written than the linux-dosemulator and
>> therefore better portable.
Info about software pc emulators deleted....
The main problem with putting a dos emulator on *BSD is that here is
no kernel support for the virtual 8086 mode. To put this call in you
need to hack the kernel in various places to make it work. The
changes are small but the significant in their impact....
--
Brett Lymn