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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!stewart
- From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart)
- Subject: Re: VM386? Possible?
- Organization: Wimsey
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 06:29:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep02.062959.6775@wimsey.bc.ca>
- Keywords: windows,386,vm
- References: <1992Sep1.212303.2509@athena.mit.edu> <1992Sep01.224938.19323@bnr.ca>
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Sep01.224938.19323@bnr.ca> minyard@bnr.ca writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.212303.2509@athena.mit.edu>, tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
- >|> From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
- >|> Date: 1 Sep 1992 17:08:52 GMT
- >|> Reply-To: lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
- >|>
- >|> Forgive my ignorance, but is it possible to run a 386 program on a
- >|> virtual 386 on a real 386? The reason I ask is this: aren't a lot
- >|> of dos programs running in 386 mode? So even if you got VM86 working
- >|> and got a dos emulator running, wouldn't things like windows apps
- >|> not run at all? Or is everything still running as an 8086?
- >|>
- >.
- >.
- >.
- >|>
-
- [good stuff about V86 mode deleted...]
-
- >|> But for the majority of the PC *applications*, this shouldn't be a
- >|> concern; they tend to be written using only 8086 code.
- >|>
- >|> - Ted
- >
- >Well, the majority of the applications my wife uses are ms-windows. She
- >sure hates having to reboot the machine to go between linux and windows.
-
- ... this is your chance to talk yout wife into a new computer ... it worked
- ... for me ... :-)
- >
- >It should be technically feasible to have a "windows" emulator under
- >linux (using X for its display!). The screen stuff shouldn't be too
- >difficult, just tedious. The hard stuff would be memory handling and
- >running things in 286 protected mode.
-
- ... I think the >600 entry point API might present an interesting problem as
- ... well
-
- >
- >If anyone wants to do this, I will volunteer as a beta tester!
- >
- [.sig deleted]
-
- js
-