On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote:
>>
>> Strange, right? And not just on one computer, but three separate ones; each
>> running different hardware and software (host OS). Although I would expect
>> that the underlying differences are abstracted away by VirtualBox.
>
> It's not really that strange. EMS is rarely used nowadays, and DOS (in
> all its billions of setups) isn't highly tested by emulators. Their
> focus is on other, more popular, guests.
>
> It's impossible (or maybe unprofitable) to test every emulator under
> the sun (dozens!), plus having to work around all the bugs and missing
> features. Some OSes present bigger problems than others (OS/2,
> OpenBSD), even requiring VT-X compatible hardware.
>
> I would recommend you (also) test under QEMU if you're that worried or
> want (potentially) better stability. At least Windows (32-bit or
> 64-bit) binaries are easily available below (not to mention that QEMU
> runs on various other host OSes too, e.g. Linux):
>
> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/
>
QEMU, while about 10x slower (on Win 8.1 amd64 host), ran perfectly. 
Thank you for the suggestion. Perhaps there are some optimizations that 
I don't know about...

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