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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!info.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 03:13:00 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 27 Message-ID: <317CAD2C.4487EB71@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <m3ohoqoln2.fsf@smia.ambolt.no> <4l5rbr$1eam@news.missouri.edu> <317C9012.26C59A60@gramercy.ios.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Bryan Seigneur <freds@gramercy.ios.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21966 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:754 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3399 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3241 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17847 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46605 Bryan Seigneur wrote: > Look it up! Look things up before you give Linux the bad end of the doubt! > DOSEmu is running Doom, Doom2, Descent, Rise of the Triad, etc, etc, To be fair, we were talking about DOS emulation at the level provided by OS/2 or Win95. DOSEmu, as capable as it is at running *certain* DOS applications, is NOT a general dos emulator that I can count on to run everything from my EISA setup utilities and SMC EZSTART floppy to "Sam and Max" off CDROM (just to pick 3 real-world examples from my very own wish list). As nice as DOSEmu is at doing certain things, it is NOT a DOS emulator, it is not even CLOSE and you are sadly mistaken if you can even somehow equate it with, say, OS/2's dos emulation. For many of us, nothing less than that level of emulation will do, either. I don't like to run DOS at all, and the very few times I do it's because I've got to run some arcane thing that isn't available anywhere else. If the emulator cannot run anything on my list of arcane things then it's totally useless to me. While I take your point about not underestimating what Linux can do, I also urge you to remember that it's easily possible to commit the opposite offense as well. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project