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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 03:13:00 -0700
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To: Bryan Seigneur <freds@gramercy.ios.com>
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Bryan Seigneur wrote:
> Look it up!  Look things up before you give Linux the bad end of the doubt!
> DOSEmu is running Doom, Doom2, Descent, Rise of the Triad, etc, etc,


To be fair, we were talking about DOS emulation at the level provided by
OS/2 or Win95.  DOSEmu, as capable as it is at running *certain* DOS
applications, is NOT a general dos emulator that I can count on to run
everything from my EISA setup utilities and SMC EZSTART floppy to "Sam
and Max" off CDROM (just to pick 3 real-world examples from my very own
wish list).

As nice as DOSEmu is at doing certain things, it is NOT a DOS emulator,
it is not even CLOSE and you are sadly mistaken if you can even somehow
equate it with, say, OS/2's dos emulation.  For many of us, nothing less
than that level of emulation will do, either.  I don't like to run DOS
at all, and the very few times I do it's because I've got to run some
arcane thing that isn't available anywhere else.  If the emulator cannot
run anything on my list of arcane things then it's totally useless to
me.

While I take your point about not underestimating what Linux can do, I
also urge you to remember that it's easily possible to commit the
opposite offense as well. :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project