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From: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DOS emulator for FreeBSD?
Date: 18 Feb 1995 11:57:46 -0500
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Connection Machine Facility
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In article <D465Ay.31v@druid.com>, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.com> wrote:
>Matt Warnock (mwarnock@garlic.com) wrote:
>: I am a Linux user for a couple of years now.  I am disappointed with Linux'
>: NFS performance, and thought I'd try FreeBSD.  But as I still need DOS for 
>: some things, is there a good DOS emulator for FreeBSD?  DOSEMU under linux
>
>I would be interested in a NetBSD version if one is about.  If there is
>anyone working on such a beast I might be able to contribute some time
>to help as well.

I use pcemu all the time, works great.  I believe it's under ports for FreeBSD,
and maybe one these days I'll make it a package for NetBSD.  You can get it
from ftp://ftp.cs.bris.ac.uk/users/hedley/

--Ken