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Rod Pemberton kirjoitti:
> <Sterten AT aol DOT com> wrote in message news:c25 DOT 14a1eb48 DOT 336066dc AT aol DOT com...
>> but can't we just include some old platform to support the old
> DOS-programs  ?
> 
> I think these are the major options.
> 
> 1) DOSBOX http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
>     (but, DPMI support is supposedly disabled, since it's for gaming not
> development...)
> 
> 2) some version of DOS running under QEMU
> FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org
> DR-DOS http://www.drdosprojects.de/
> PDOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdos
> RDOS http://www.rdos.net/eng/
> 
> QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> 
> 3) some version of DOS (above) running under Linux's DOSEMU
> DOSEMU http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/

One could perhaps add for example FreeDOS under free VmWare Server.