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RE: [Xen-devel] (free)dos under xen

To: "Mark Williamson" <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] (free)dos under xen
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:41:54 +1100
Cc: "Jacob Gorm Hansen" <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
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> 
> > if what you want is a slower machine, why not just use Bochs?
> 
> Or QEmu (which is very nice).
> 

A slower machine is just one possible feature. Doing it using a CPU
emulator would be a gross waste of CPU cycles imho.

One of the reasons for wanting a DOS domain (no need for artificial
slowness here) is for keeping a few legacy applications going without
having to keep them on their aging hardware, or wasting new hardware on
them.

All things considered, dosemu might be a better option.

thanks

James


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