>> A Virtual Machine for the rest of us is something like VMWare, Qemu, >> VirtualBox, etc. - something that simulates a real machine. You >> load a real operating system in it and the operating system >> generally doesn't know or care that it's actually in a simulation.
> So "the rest of us" is _everybody_ but me? Exactly. > And you consider BIOS > software that never existed in a real machine to be part of a > "simulated real machine" but DOS software that never existed in a > real machine to be something different? I have no idea what you are trying to tell. > Would you consider > something like PTS-DOS (which in some ways is less compatible with > MS-DOS than is DOSBox) a real DOS? definitively. this is not about the number of bugs present, but about the way this thing works. ... >> I wouldn't even think to try to look for the InDOS flag on something >> like DOSBox. > Why would you _expect_ it to not be there? I would expect it to be there (you don't write how you determine that it does not exist. in the end it's a pointer), but I would expect it to point to a location that is constant 0, as (at least potentially) DosBOX could be completely reentrant, and never 'InDOS'. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
