Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/03/18/06:20:10
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:09:50 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
> <kalum AT lintux DOT cx> 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
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