pcemu [was: Re: So near but....]

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@AZStarNet.com)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 23:41:53 -0700


>>>>> On Tue, 15 Aug 1995 22:42:50 -0500 (EDT), Jim Paradis <paradis@amt.tay1.dec.com> said:

Jim> In fact, I've just been playing
Jim> with PCEMU under Digital UNIX. It's not 64-bit-clean code (I
Jim> had to build it with the -taso option), and its X-windows
Jim> colormapping is a bit primitive (If Netscrape was running and
Jim> using up my colormap, then PCEMU would give me nice crisp
Jim> black-on-black text 8-) ), but it ran and booted MS-DOS right
Jim> away.

Just did the same under Linux/Alpha. The 64-bit troubles were pretty
minor and after fixing the obvious ones, I did get pcemu to boot
MS-DOG. Installing DOS onto a floppy disk didn't quite work yet (I
got "unimplemented BIOS interrupt" messages). But still, I'm
impressed. I plan to look into making it (or gde) into a MILO
initialization engine.

--david