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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!wariat.org!ict.pwr.wroc.pl!news From: strasbur@chkw386.ch.pwr.wroc.pl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 24 Apr 1996 11:06:19 GMT Organization: Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ll1vb$s4j@okapi.ict.pwr.wroc.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: chkw386.ch.pwr.wroc.pl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22250 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:826 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3493 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3345 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18088 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47007 Jordan Hubbard 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). You are right, but personally I find dosemu as an overkill. I don't like current development direction of dosemu - run everything, even at the expense of resources. Many programs which can be run inside dosemu have their native unix counterparts. I would like to see a small dosemu version running a subset of dos programs... > >As nice as DOSEmu is at doing certain things, it is NOT a DOS emulator, Sure. It is an IBM PC part-of-hardware and BIOS emulator... Regards Krzysztof Strasburger