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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!world!hd Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Dos Emulator? Message-ID: <CEpJoq.Msu@world.std.com> From: hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 00:50:49 GMT References: <29a5q0$842@techbook.techbook.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Lines: 48 In article <29a5q0$842@techbook.techbook.com>, Chris Healy <galamar9@techbook.techbook.com> wrote: > >Here's gotta be a stupid question. Does FreeBSD have a DOS emulator? > >Thanks in advance -- Chris No, to the best of my knowledge. Brett Lymn (blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au) was working on it. I saved this posting: >Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Sep24214028@mallee.awadi.com.au> >References: <199309211600.AA03824@visgraph.uucp> >NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au >In-reply-to: root@visgraph.UUCP's message of 21 Sep 1993 14:05:36 -0500 > >>>>>> On 21 Sep 1993 14:05:36 -0500, root@visgraph.UUCP (Superuser) said: >=> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu > >=> I very much require that the OS I go with will support DOS... I understand >=> that work is well-underway with this and NetBSD. However, what is the >=> status? > >Unless someone else is doing this, I am currently doing DOSEMU under >386BSD 0.1 not NetBSD. > >=> Will there be any support for MS-Windows? > >At the very best it would be real mode only as you are really running >on a 8086. A better way to go with Windoze would be to use WINE from >Linux which is under development, WINE is a free version of WABI which >means that you can run windows applications under X without the need >to have ms-windows running. I've tried to contact Brett but he isn't seem reachable from here, or he has vanished. I picked up the latest Linux dosemu and have compiled it, but there is a great deal of both System Fivey code and Linux specific code in it, and it is far from running. I will probably going to press on a little further. If anyone else is looking at this stuff, please let me know. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates Voice: 508 433 6936 hd@world.std.com Fax: 508 433 5267