>>> whatever EMM386 and friends was and is, it is definitively not what >>> people think when they hear 'DOS VM'. you are abusing words to make a >>> point. not good.
>> I don't really care. I am talking about how existing DOS 386 memory >> managers have worked for 35+ years now. >> The 80386 has hardware support for multiple concurrent DOS VMs. This >> is called V86 mode. How *ALL* DOS 386 memory managers work is using >> this features. >> We cannot change the historical language now. > I - as grandfather of FreeDOS EMM386 - may say that you are abusing > 'DOS VM' when referring to what EMM386 does. after rereading (and rethinking), I concede that 'DOS VM' is probably correct. I was just irritated because EMM386 actually does nothing beyond a little memory mapping and implement DPMI, while a 'virtual machine' like virtualPC, virtualBox, etc. does ininitively more. but I think the black box with the command prompt in Windows is indead often called the DOS VM or DosBox. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
