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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: 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: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:31:07 -0700
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Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> While it is true that DOSemu is not in the same league as that which you
> can do in OS/2 and whatnot, allow me to be pedantic and point out that two
> of your three examples above are not beyond the capabilities of DOSemu.

And I didn't know that - thanks for setting me straight!

> Out of curiousity, what level of emulation can FreeBSD users expect
> from the recently obtained BSDI code that was announced? With respect to
> functionality, will it be closer to DOSemu or a DOS session under OS/2 ?

My understanding is that you boot DOS with it (using floppies or a DOS
image on disk) and then use it like a DOS session under OS/2.
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project