Early-to-middle IBM-PC history (was: End-user uses for x86-64)

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 12:53:15 EST 2007


On 2/19/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/19/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >   DOSemu has a software 8086 emulator built in.
> >   Reference?  The stuff I found at http://www.dosemu.org/ said it did not.
>
> Quick google search showed it in the Changelog specifically for 64 bit.
>
> http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/bleeding/NEWS
>
> * Added native 64-bit support for x86-64, which, similarly to the 32-bit
>   version, uses CPU emulation for V86 mode, and runs DPMI code natively.
>   Most of the code is now 64-bit clean but a few cases may not work yet.
>
>   Sorry, I had been using it last month, it appears it MAY only be
> available in the current development version.

  It relates directly to:

http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/README-tech/1.2/cpuemu.html

-- 
-- Thomas


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