Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:55:18 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: root AT darkstar DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Not-emulators (was AMD processors and assembly language) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:09:50 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel > wrote: > > >On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote: > > > >> Wine Is Not an Emulator in the strictest sense ;-) > > > >Well in reality it is a emulator, it enables windoze programs to run > >under linux, it emulates the win32 API. SO it is a emulator. > > And Windows 9x is an emulator too, it enables Windows programs to run > under ms-dos, it emulates the win32 API. SO it is a emulator. See below. > > To me, an "emulator" is something that translates one machine > language to another on the fly (either by interpreting or dynamic > recompilation). For example, NES and Java programs run on emulators. Well if this is true the term DOSEMU shoud also be wrong shouldn't it Damien. DOSEMU actually emulates MS-DOS under linux for dos programs. WINE also emulates win32 environment as far as the win32 program is concerned. > >> What about DOSEMU for Linux? How does a DOSEMU box compare to a > >> Windows 98 DOS box? Does it support graphics? > > > >I haven't tun DOSEMU but I think that it even supports 16 bit etc graphics > >mode. IIRC quake runs pretty well under it. > > So it runs a DJGPP 2 program. Would the DJGPP version of GCC run? I haven't tried it but I see no reason why it shouldn't. IIRC DOSEMU's DPMI support is very good. Grendel Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)