On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:42:26AM +0000, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> This is actually how dosemu works, but in a different way: 99% of the BIOS
> is in user space, except for console graphics, which uses the real
> existing video bios in the PC.
Exactly. Taking dosemu's good points is a happy thing. If dosemu could run
windows, I'd be a very happy camper. At present, it looks like speeding up
plex86 is a lot easyer then making dosemu more powerful -- though I have to
take a good look at the simx86 stuff mentioned here the other day (or was
that today?).
> I wonder whether it's that much of a win really: DOS uses the BIOS, but
> other OSes much less.
Probably. Don't forget that almost all bootloaders probably use the BIOS
too.
-=- James Mastros
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