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On 05/08/2014 06:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Actually it could use KVM instead of CPU emulation on nearly all modern processors...

Of course, at that point you might just run qemu-kvm instead of DOSEMU,
since I seem to recall that DOSEMU is still a real version of DOS.  I
have to admit to mostly using DOSBOX for games and KVM for anything else
that needs DOS these days... just what happens to work best for me.

	-hpa