From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: c|net: Microsoft has officially killed MS-DOS.
Date: 16 Apr 2000 13:25:43 -0700
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"Thomas Harte" <T DOT Harte AT btinternet DOT com DOT DELETE_HERE> writes:

> smile773 wrote in message
> <24dK4.9179$WF DOT 501644 AT bgtnsc04-news DOT ops DOT worldnet DOT att DOT net>...
> >however the idea that linux will eventually have a better backwards
> >compatable protected mode dos shell and utilities is possible.
> 
> 
> That's a point, shouldn't DOSEMU be compilable (with small alterations)
> under Cygnus or something? There is a win32 console mode, after all.

Mmm... there's a fair chunk of support in the Linux kernel (mostly to
make vm86 mode work).  Also, I think it requires a lot of Linux/BSD
features beyond the standard Unix stuff provided by Cygnus.  So I
think the alterations would be quite large.

Anyway, DOSEMU requires some version of DOS to run.  So if you have
that, you can always just boot it directly.

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Nate Eldredge
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