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Re: Windows under DosEmu



On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and
> > configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to
> > applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where
> > win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first*
> > open a "dos prompt" under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably
> > has to do with the video mode.
> 
> Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu?  Really?  Please?  :)

Sure. And Linux does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Oh, come on, guys. Win95 runs in ring 0, this is a no-no under Linux,
because this is kernel mode. There is hardly any chance that Win32
application will run under Wine or Twin willows soon.

Ts-ts-ts,
Marcus

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