Re: DOS emulator

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from michael.norman@xxxxxxxx on Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:54:24
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> Perhaps someone
> can also explain how an emulator like Bochs might work for XyDos.

It would run real DOS -- PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, you supply a disk image of
whatever OS you want, you just have to possess it -- as a child process of W2K
(you could also run W98, or WXP, or NT v4, or Linux, as a child of W2K). It
would emulate VGA color in a window, and there's an SVGA library for full
screen. You need Cygwin (or M$ Visual C++) to compile it -- compiling it
adapts it to your individual machine and hardware and etc etc -- a sensible
alternative to having 3000 different precompiled binary distros, or a few
generic distros that may, or may not, recognize your unique environment.
XyWrite would then run under genuine DOS (W98). Whether this would resolve
W2K's screen refresh problems is a separate question -- simply don't know,
because NT [which subsumes 2K, XP -- they're all just versions of NT] tries
hard to prevent *anything* from touching the hardware.

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Robert Holmgren
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