Re: WLinux -> Subverting Windows by making Linux available to MS users

Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:40:00 -0500 (EST)


> > Could the same be done in the opposite direction? (Win95 'under'
> > Linux using this method.) Maybe. Would be much more desirable, but
> > probably much more difficult.
>
> The DOSemu people have the core code for software 386 emulation. They need
> more help in making that able to emulate the full Windows 95 and then into
> turning at least parts of it into a JIT compiler.

While the latter would be great, I would just like to have a
completely emulated PC with stock hardware that will run any 32bit OS
(Win95, NT, Linux, whatever). THEN you could work on optimizing.

This has been done by a couple commercial companies, but last I looked
the public efforts had a long way to go.

With 333Mhz PC's and faster Alpha's out now and 1000Mhz chips
announced, functionality needs to be tackled before optimization.

> Even better would be for someone to take AMD and Cyrix collective heads
> and bang them together until they add a flag to allow proper x86 x>=3
> virtualisation in hardware.

I knew this used to be the problem and wondered if it still is. Has
Intel fixed this yet? I've been wondering for years if there was some
kind of conspiracy (a la MS) preventing full (32bit, rin0, MMU)
virtualization support in Intel compatible CPU's...

sdw

> Alan

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