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Re: DOS on non-x86 systems?



"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> on Wed, Sep 11, 2002, nate (debian-user@aphroland.org) wrote:
> > Michael D. Crawford said:
> > > What options are available for running DOS on a system that does not have
> > > an x86  processor, like a PowerPC Macintosh?
> > 
> > dosemu may work ??
> 
> No, it won't.
> 
> dosemu requires the virtual 386 mode of an x86 CPU.  It won't work on
> other architectures.

Bochs is another alternative.  I think it is fully software emulation
(and probably slow).
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org



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