Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:07:52 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: prb@bsdi.com Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: DOSCMD and legacy issues. Message-ID: <199609150837.SAA22515@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Greetings Paul! You may recall some time back that we undertook to do some Good Things to doscmd; time and competing demands have stretched things out a little more than anyone would have liked, but we've moved along and I'm at a point now where I am beginning to feel comfortable about it again. One significant issue that has arisen out of the work that John Kohl did is that the original vm86 interface used by the BSD/OS kernel may be some work to support. The greatest drawback to my doing anything concrete about this is my unfortunate location relative to the test system which Jordan was kindly able to set up. Thus my initial question to you is whether you consider it a worthwhile exercise to persevere and attempt to establish binary compatability with the current BSD/OS vm86 kernel interface, or whether you would be more inclined to rearchitect the interface along the lines that Sean is following. If legacy compatability is an issue, I would expect to be able to find someone closer to the test system who could do the final work without too much trouble. Regards, -- ]] 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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