Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:04:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DOS Emulator (was: Re: JDK 1.02) Message-ID: <199608270134.LAA03887@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608261409.JAA29985@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 26, 96 09:09:02 am
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Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > Whatever happened with the BSDI DOS emulator? As I recall, Jordan posted > a note that BSDI had agreed to provide it to us to help prevent > stagnation... and I don't recall hearing a word since. It's stagnating. At the moment SEF is putting together some hardware for a -current machine, and will then (is now?) be working on getting the vm86() stuff out of NetBSD into our kernel. Then he/I/whoever will be looking at the huge pile of changes that CMH has made to dosemu for NetBSD and integrating them with the BSDI version so that the resultant mutant will run at least under BSD/OS and FreeBSD. > Just wondering. I don't have any DOS software anyways but I know it was > of some interest to other folks. In the short term, pcemu is alarmingly good. In the longer term, dosemu will be better. > ... JG -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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