I'm not sure it really matters whether QEMU is emulating a machine in
software or using a hardware assist. The point is, it's pretending to be a
full machine either way and it's faithfully simulating the processor and
other hardware. Software might be able to tell that it's on hardware or
softwar
On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, Michael Brutman wrote:
Sorry, we have a terminology issue here. (Again.)
A Virtual Machine for the rest of us is something like VMWare, Qemu,
VirtualBox, etc. - something that simulates a real machine. You load a
real operating system in it and the operating system general
Sorry, we have a terminology issue here. (Again.)
A Virtual Machine for the rest of us is something like VMWare, Qemu,
VirtualBox, etc. - something that simulates a real machine. You load a
real operating system in it and the operating system generally doesn't know
or care that it's actually in
> That doesn't make sense. A VM is a hardware emulator. It doesn't
> get to choose to relocate the InDOS flag. DOSBox can do whatever
> it wants when it is emulating DOS, but a hardware emulator doesn't
> get to do those things.
>
> What VMs are you seeing this behavior in?
I was wondering if
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 3:12 PM Volkert via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:35 AM tom ehlert wrote:
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>> > Over a month ago, I opened an issue on the FreeDOS project on
>> > GitLab about the Open Watcom v2 installer being extremely slow in
>> > FreeDOS. It takes an hour or
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 8:57 AM Liam Proven wrote:
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> On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Bret Johnson wrote:
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> > The problem is, the CPU's _themselves_ really haven't gotten a whole lot
> > faster than they were in the 386 days.
>
> Drastic oversimplification to the point of not being true, ac
> That depends.
whatever 'depends'.
> Besides poorly optimized system caches, is the
> installer doing things that blow the cache and increase the miss rate?
whatever the installer is doing: unless you find a valid 'this is
doing something in a stupid way' point this installer is as much a
val
That depends. Besides poorly optimized system caches, is the
installer doing things that blow the cache and increase the miss rate?
You noted a significantly increased download zip. Is everything
actually necessary? Did you download a debug build that will have
additional binary code or is the
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:35 AM tom ehlert wrote:
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> > Over a month ago, I opened an issue on the FreeDOS project on
> > GitLab about the Open Watcom v2 installer being extremely slow in
> > FreeDOS. It takes an hour or more on FreeDOS, while the same
> > installation completes on MS-DOS 7.1 wit
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Bret Johnson wrote:
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> My terminology is compliant with that definition.
*Sigh*
I am aware of that. The general term "re-entrancy" is not synonymous
with the specific term "reentrant kernel".
I do not wish to seem mean, but when I say to you that you are not
explai
> Over a month ago, I opened an issue on the FreeDOS project on
> GitLab about the Open Watcom v2 installer being extremely slow in
> FreeDOS. It takes an hour or more on FreeDOS, while the same
> installation completes on MS-DOS 7.1 within just a few minutes.
either you report your config.sys a
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