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Re: feedback wanted alternative Debian installation system



On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:57:55PM -0500, Mark Eichin wrote:
> 
> > Well, except that plex86 doesn't really work and the project is
> 
> I thought "bochs" had recently become a viable option for this as
> well?

There is a big difference between bochs and plex86. Bochs emulates the
CPU, plex86 virtualizes it. That means that bochs emulates every
instruction, plex86 emulates only the privileged instructions and all
other instructions are just executed as normal. In theory plex86
should be much faster, but it can only run on IA-32.

Jeroen Dekkers
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