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From: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Info on OS dev?
Date: 11 Feb 1995 17:51:22 -0500
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Connection Machine Facility
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References: <1995Feb11.093635.33911@ac.dal.ca> <3hj9ac$mna@news0.cybernetics.net>
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In article <3hj9ac$mna@news0.cybernetics.net>,
James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net> wrote:
>As for DOS, Linux has a tool called dosemu which is able to run DOS pretty
>well, as far as I've heard. I works on Linux only, though, due to the lack
>of access to the x86's real mode under *BSD (no kernel support).
There is a program called pcemu that does a complete software emulation of
DOS that runs on any Unix platform, {Free|Net}BSD included. You can get it
from ftp://ftp.cs.bris.ac.uk/users/hedley. I only use it for Quicken, but
it does that pretty well. Text-mode stuff only, though. The author of it
claimed he could not find a text-mode DOS program that didn't work under it.
--Ken