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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD packages
Date: 23 Jun 1994 10:26:27 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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In-reply-to: chuckr@glue.umd.edu's message of 18 Jun 1994 02:34:22 GMT
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles B Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> writes:
In article <2ttmfe$9to@mojo.eng.umd.edu> chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey) writes:
Charles> Second, how about any DOS emulation, not 386 level, just
Charles> minimums? Not Windows, just run some small dos tools.
Yep how about it.... ;-) Actually I am trying to work on such a thing
but my life keeps intruding :-( Even to get that "just run some small
dos tools." bit as you blithely put it is a fairly big task. The *BSD
kernel does not have vm86 support at all and there are lots of little
twisty turny gotchas in putting it into the system, we think we have
that bit done. After looking at the Linux DOSemu code we have decided
a bit of a rewrite is in order. All in all it's a big task, the
people that are doing it have little time to spare so do not hold your
breath (you are welcome to "pitch in" if you like...)
--
Brett Lymn