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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5059 comp.os.386bsd.development:3069 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!swrinde!pipex!sunic!news.tele.fi!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp.hut.fi!tri From: tri@pooh.tky.hut.fi (Timo J. Rinne) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Dosemu? Date: 16 Jan 1995 18:49:03 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 11 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <TRI.95Jan16204903@pooh.tky.hut.fi> References: <TRI.95Jan1185410@pooh.tky.hut.fi> <HEIN.95Jan7103247@quetzalcoatl.in.tu-clausthal.de> <95Jan08.154722.24207@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> <BLYMN.95Jan13173114@mallee.awadi.com.au> Reply-To: Timo.Rinne@hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: pooh.tky.hut.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: blymn@awadi.com.au's message of 13 Jan 1995 07:01:14 GMT Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> wrote: > The main problem with putting a dos emulator on *BSD is that here is > no kernel support for the virtual 8086 mode. To put this call in you > need to hack the kernel in various places to make it work. The > changes are small but the significant in their impact.... Yes. This sure is the problem. I think though that we could snatch most of the code from Linux. No-one seems to be interested in this anyway. Tough. I'm sure that hundreds of BSD-users would use it. //tri