From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:45:03 +0000
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >If anyone writes a DOS emulator for Linux, I
> >might give it a go :-)
> 
> Then what's DOSEmu?
> Plus, some DOS apps run through Wine.

dosemu isn't exactly easy to set up IMHO. And yes, I have read all the
manuals, FAQs, etc. I could get my hands on.

By comparison, VMware is a piece of cake, if only a very slow piece of
cake.

> > This has never happened to me. The only time I've seen Win2k totally
> > crash is if a full-screen DOS-app causes a fault in ntvdm - in which
> > case, the whole system does die.
> 
> Major security hole.  To bring down the system, just bring in your
> intentionally buggy DJGPP app.

You can crash Linux completely by running a dodgy DPMI app in dosemu, e.g.
a bad program written with DJGPP. I've never actually managed this with a
DJGPP program (it all works like a dream), but some game (Warcraft 2?)
totally killed it once.

> that is, until  g n o m e  is finished...

GNOME will never be finished ;) That is, it'll always be in development.
Nice environment though.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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