Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 02:09:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Subject: Re: Networking in PCEMU (1/2) Message-ID: <199610250009.CAA05508@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610241154.EAA11910@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from Satoshi Asami at "Oct 24, 96 04:54:31 am"
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I wrote the code that allows to access the network from pcemu. > Did you get this, Joerg? Yes (and even your mail twice -- i've purposedly installed an alias named `j' for me on freefall :). However, i'm afraid pcemu is getting beyond the point where the time i'm able and willing to spend into it will be sufficient to maintain this port. In particular, since the original author, David Hedley, basically gave up this fine piece of work, i think what is needed here is a real maintainer, not just somebody like me who's got a 10-hour per day paywork job, a 2-hour per day FreeBSD Usenet answering session etc. I've still got a submission sitting in the queue for an EMS module for it, and never remotely came round to install and test it. I've got a couple of ideas for other things that would be interesting to implement (and not too difficult either), like real floppy disk support, perhaps COM line support, 80186 opcode implementations (namely things like ENTER that come up from time to time e.g. in Borland-compiled programs). Nifty little things, but they require time. So is there anybody in the ports team who feels compelled by taking over this baby? It's really too valuable to see it falling down... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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