Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:29:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New DOScmd snapshot available Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.960926142526.28799A-100000@garcia.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199609250323.MAA07201@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Michael Smith wrote:
> Jonathan Mini stands accused of saying:
> Well, with experts like you on our side, how can we lose? 8) Seriously,
> if emulating the PIC is necessary, then we'll sit down and Just Do It;
> I'm familiar enough with the part (and I have the databooks) to write a
> disgusting state machine that will emulate it. If I need more detail, I
> can go to pcemu (friendly copyright, nice code) or dosemu (nasty copyright,
> variable but generally disgusting code) and see how they do it.
Well, emulating such devices will be fairly easy... probably easier than
managing contention with the "real" ones -- certain makes for better
security. OS/2 and (I belive) Win95 do this, and it works fairly well.
Except for devices like Sound Cards, which have a high data throughput,
the overhead of emulation is neglegent -- especially on anything like a
decent 486 or better.
IMHO, you SHOULD be emulating devices -- it's very powerful if
done right... especialyl for "debugging" later on in life (when this is
good enough that people will want to use it to test apps they are
developing for DOS.
> btw, thanks for your support so far; look forward to having you actively
> involved!
=) So do I.. this is fun ;)
> --
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Jon Mini, j_mini@efn.org, mini@4j.lane.edu
GAMMA Development Team
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