Stas Sergeev wrote: > 08.06.2014 03:25, Julius Schwartzenberg пишет: >> On the Wikipedia page about Merge (Win4Lin was the Linux port of Merge) >> it is mentioned that the company had access to the Windows source code >> under the WISE program. >> https://web.archive.org/web/20120615111330/http://hyper.sunjapan.com.cn/~hz/win32/wise.htm > Sounds much like wine to me. > I don't think this had a sources of vxds. > And, as wikipedia says, > --- > which allowed later versions of Merge to run Windows /Shrink wrapped/ > applications without a copy of Windows. > --- > So I think they speak about wine-alike approach here. > The win4lin page mentions there were 3 flavours of win4lin, > one being a wine-alike emulator.
Yes, I noticed that too, but Win4Lin Home was just a home-use version of their full Win4Lin product. I think those citations are incorrect. I have never seen a Wine-like version of Merge. Indeed it's unknown how much documentation they had through WISE. >> With dosemu dual-booting is easy though :) > How? > Manipulating a symlink for drive C? > But this will still require an installation of a second DOS. Yep! I guess using multiple configuration files would work as well. >> Maybe when SCO is completely dead, more interesting bits will come out >> from there :) > Even if it is dead, the copyrights are not automatically > re-assigned to someone else. Maybe the original author > will release it as abandonware, but it is still impossible to > port such a code to freedos I suspect. You're right, it's not likely it could immediately benefit any free software. >> Yep, I still need to try that, but considering the HDPMI results it >> doesn't look promising. But in the regular case, that's how should be >> able to run it in DOSEMU if it would work? > At least for win31 that works right, but win.com can be used > as well: dosemu cheats it and forces to load krnl386.exe instead > of anything else. > Essentially, krnl386.exe is an unpriviledged part of the kernel, > while win386.exe is a priviledged part. dosemu skips the > priviledged part since it doesn't do much but to provide DPMI > and a couple of vxds. Thanks I just tried this with DOSEMU and the earliest Chicago builds. They both fail with: KERNEL: Unable to initialize heap I had the same error with hdpmi16 in QEMU when I used a Chicago version which did not have a mismatch with its DOS version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Dosemu-devel mailing list Dosemu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dosemu-devel
