Re: New Member VERY hot on 8086's

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 21:07, jerryc@innerpeace.org wrote:
> We did plan to do this project with FreeDOS, but feel that using ELKS or 
> Minix would help in the promotion of linux, and would rather go that route.

FreeDOS is probably the most predictable environment. ELKS might buy you
something if you wanted networking, but due to CPU limitations it can't
buy you anything on the security front really.

> In order to get this working, we will need a good 8086 emulator to run 
> on current versions of linux. I read you had an elksemu. Does it work? 
> What emus would you recommend.

elksemu runs elks binaries on linux - it works. DOSemu will run FreeDOS
or ELKS itself.

> Would stripping out some of the unneeded things make it run faster?

Only if your application needs more space than you have RAM. Otherwise
it is down to the app alone and the compiler you use. ELKS can do
swapping (thanks to Harri) but you've got a whole 400K or so of memory
free to play in - which in text mode is a *lot* of space!

Alan